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July 1983

Volume 36, Issue 7

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25 years of AAPM

Nagalingam Suntharalingam
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History of medical physics

John S. Laughlin
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Physicists applied many of their most important discoveries to medicine immediately, laying the foundation for today's radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and diagnostic radiology.

The physics of medical imaging

Paul R. Moran, R. Jerome Nickles, and James A. Zagzebski
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Images computed from x‐ray absorption, from positron emission, from nuclear magnetic resonance and from reflections of ultrasound are showing tissues and details unimagined 25 years ago.

The AIP in 1982

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The Institute prepared to react to the crisis in physics education while its publishing operations had another successful year.

South American physics

H. S. Ahluwalia
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Nuclear arms race

Carl H. Savit, Arthur A. Broyles, D. J. Hanrahan, Robert H. Kantor, Donald A. Reago, Jr, L. Holland, and Victor F. Weisskopf
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Award deserved

David Sayre
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Hefty heaves at weighty words

Francis E. Throw
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Superconducting electronics

Aleksander I. Braginski
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Pseudo‐QCD

Chih Kwan Chen
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Creationism once more

Ronnie J. Hastings and Robert W. Brehme
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List of refusniks

Henry Blumenfeld
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Nuclear arsenals

Robert I. Hildebrand and Barbara G. Levi
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Graduate‐school announcements

William Hesse
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Classical orbits in OM?

Laurence G. Taff
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Public image

Bryan H. Suits
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Scientists in defense work

Abraham Szöke and Abraham Goldberg
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Schramm's grad student

Betsy Ancker‐Johnson
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Random magnetic fields reduce critical dimensionality

Thomas von Foerster
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Fractional quantum Hall effect indicates novel quantum liquid

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Superconducting heavy‐ion linac at Stony Brook

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TFTR dedicated at Princeton

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Solar Magnetohydrodynamics

E. R. Priest and Boon Chye Low, Reviewer
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Problems of Biological Physics

L. A. Blumenfeld and Britton Chance, Reviewer
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The Nuclear Many‐Body Problem

P. Ring, P. Schuck, and M. R. Strayer, Reviewer
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General Relativity: An Introduction to the Theory of the Gravitational Field and Seventeen Simple Lectures on General Relativity Theory

H. Stephani, H. Buchdahl, and Bernard F. Schutz, Reviewer
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Energy, Force, and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth‐Century Physics

P. M. Harman and Dudley Shapere, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Coolidge Award for medical physics given to Webster

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Weisskopf wins Oppenheimer Prize

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In Brief

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Philip Rudnick

William A. Nierenberg, Fred Noel Spiess, Victor C. Anderson, and Fred H. Fisher
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Otto Halpern

Harvey Hall
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Science and labor in the US, 1983

Samuel Devons
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Battle for an electron accelerator: Argonne takes on SURA

Irwin Goodwin
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Knapp confirmed as NSF director

Irwin Goodwin
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NASA seeks input from university‐based scientists

Jean Coonan
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OTA finds export controls only slow Soviet access

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AAPM 25th Annual Meeting set for New York City

Philip F. Judy
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Fore! Golf course clears way for telescope

Jean Coonan
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Rival computer companies share R&D

Jean Coonan
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OSA and IEEE start Journal of Lightwave Technology

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American Astronomical Society elects Schmidt and Cowley

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Society of Physics Students reelects Eidson president

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White is new president of Engineering Academy

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Acoustical Society elects Martin and McKinney

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Science‐writing prize to Martin Gardner

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Center for History of Chemistry operating at Penn


See Also: Erratum

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In Brief

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Nuclear‐arms resolution evokes international response

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Washington office follows secrecy issue

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APS starts physics program with China

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Complimentary memberships help foreign exchange

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American, European Physical Societies give joint symposium

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calendar

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Coupling physics and medicine

Nagalingam Suntharalingam
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