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December 1984

Volume 37, Issue 12

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Magnetic information technology

Mark H. Kryder and Alfred B. Bortz
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Devices that can store tens of billions of characters of information in a few cubic feet, access blocks of that information in milliseconds and transfer it at the rate of tens of millions of characters per second are within our reach.

How the Jefferson Physical Laboratory came to be

Gerald Holton
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The first building in America dedicated to physics opened its doors 100 years ago: “furnished in the plainest possible manner, but provided with everything which intelligent forethought could plan.”

Muon spin relaxation

Robert H. Heffner and Donald G. Fleming
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In an ingenious application of parity violation, physicists are measuring interstitial magnetic fields and diffusion in solids by analyzing the anisotropy in the decay of injected spin‐polarized positive muons.

Science at General Electric

George Wise
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Research underwent profound changes in scale and style during the Second World War; that this transformation also stirred industry is illustrated by the changes at one large laboratory in the postwar era.
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Impact of referees' reports

Serge Galam
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The Mechanical Universe

Donald J. Barron
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Earth's early atmosphere

Clifford Jack Prentice, Jr
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Teaching today's physics

Jim Dorsey
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Babes in the woods?

G. Truman Hunter
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Nuclear war simulation

John R. Franchi
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Classifying research

John Bechhoefer
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Is Dirac's monopole a dipole?

E. J. Post
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Polonium halos redux

C. Leroy Ellenberger and Robert V. Gentry
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Peer reviews

Anthony Arrott
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Author review policy

Jay M. Pasachoff
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Physics of soaring

Christopher Purcell and Lloyd Hunter
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Prisoners of conscience

Israel Halperin
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Corrections

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Companion galaxies match quasar redshifts: the debate goes on

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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To Abalone Unbound

Sheldon L. Glashow
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Cecilia Payne‐Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections

Katherine Haranumdanis, Editor and Helen Sawyer Hogg, Reviewer
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The Physical Principles of Computed Tomography

William R. Hendee and Robert Stanton, Reviewer
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A Symmetry Primer for Scientists

Joe Rosen and Robert N. Cahn, Reviewer
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Vibrations and Waves

W. Gough, J. P. G. Richards, R. P. Williams, and Dana Roberts, Reviewer
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The Physics and Chemistry of Color: The Fifteen Causes of Color

Kurt Nassau and David G. Stork, Reviewer
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Newton at the Bat: The Science in Sports

Eric W. Schrier, Editor, William F. Allman, Editor, and Alexander Hellemans, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Coolidge Award for medical physics to Evans

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AACG International Award to Chalmers

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OSA presents Max Born Award to Adolph Lohman

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NAE Award to Bardeen; Bueche Medal to David

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Welch Award in chemistry to Kenneth S. Pitzer

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Wannier elected posthumously to Swedish academy

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Shoemaker and Stevenson receive astronomy prizes

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ASP Bruce Medal to Wilson; Trumpler Award to Hunter

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Peter Arnold Moldauer

R. R. Ringo and A. B. Smith
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George Ernest Owen

Leon Madansky and P. W. Keaton
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Herman W. Hoerlin

Hans A. Bethe, Donald M. Kerr, and Robert A. Jeffries
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Joseph Lee Fowler

Arthur H. Snell and Alvin H. Nielsen
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Industrial scientists help science education in local schools

Ken Lyons, Julia Phillips, and Barbara Wilson
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DOE and universities oppose reducing U235 in campus reactors

Irwin Goodwin
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Congress enacts peace research institute

Irwin Goodwin
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Peer‐review evasions rebuffed, but recur

Irwin Goodwin
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Light pollution out West concerns optical astronomers

William Sweet
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Larger share of PhDs goes to foreigners

William Sweet
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AAPM chooses McCullough president‐elect for 1985

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Tennessee distinguished scientist program begins

Margaret Marynowski and William Sweet
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Science Writing Award for Greenstein's Frozen Star

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SPS establishes new scholarship

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Search panel for Treasurer and Deputy Executive Secretary

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Ramavataram Fund Committee invites suggestions for future

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APS seeking more hosts for Chinese physics scholars

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Astronomy's problem with light pollution

Maarten Schmidt
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