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October 1984

Volume 37, Issue 10

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Special issue: Materials research

Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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Crystalline semiconductor heterostructures

Venkatesh Narayanamurti
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Research with materials made from atomically thin layers of semiconductors has yielded a unique discovery, the fractional Hall effect, as well as truly novel devices in electronics and photonics.

Noncrystalline semiconductors

Hellmut Fritzsche


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New materials free of the constraints of long‐range periodic order have applications ranging from optical memory disks and photovoltaic cells to diffraction gratings and x‐ray lenses.

Superpolymers, ultraweak solids and aggregates

Tom C. Lubensky and Philip A. Pincus
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Particles up to 1000 Å in size act like atoms or molecules and come together to form flexible chains, periodic lattices and entities with fractal geometries.

Superconducting materials

Malcolm R. Beasley and Theodore H. Geballe


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Condensed‐matter physicists exploit the unusual electric and magnetic properties of superconductors not only to find surprising new materials but also to identify and explore exotic new physical phenomena.
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Space Forces

Jack F. Butler and George Maeda
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Unions on campus

Howard D. Stidham, Thomas W. Noonan, and Lawrence Cranberg
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Concurrent processors

Robert H. Berman
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Yashchin: no exit

Benjamin Fain
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SDI: no pot of gold

Richard L. Kaufmann
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A bachelor's point of view

Martin T. Smith
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Ballistic missile defense

Geoffrey A. Landis
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Elephants and mahouts

Henry T. Minden
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Sophomores for peace

Jerome Pressman
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Volunteer retirees

Leonard Strachan, Jr
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Department oversight

Roger Bengtson and William Sweet
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Attention, presiders

Bradley Bobbs
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Corrections

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Construction of the e–p collider HERA under way in Hamburg

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Has the Higgs boson been seen in the Crystal Ball?

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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R & D funding for the Super Collider

Gloria B. Lubkin
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MRS Meets in Boston

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The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave‐Particle Dualism

Bruce R. Wheaton and Pierre Noyes, Reviewer
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Three Concepts of Time

Kenneth G. Denbigh and Lawrence W. Fagg, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Institute of Physics 1984 Awards


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Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry

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Kastler Prize for Theoretical Physics

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NSF Distinguished Public Service Award to Abelson

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Royal Society elects new foreign members

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New prize for materials research established in Holland

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Chemical Society honors work in crystallography

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In Brief

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Scott Ellsworth Forbush

Martin A. Pomerantz
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Giuseppe Colombo

George Field and Irwin Shapiro
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Nathaniel H. Frank

Philip M. Morse
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Allen V. Astin

Ernest Ambler
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Paul Jeremy Dean

M. S. Skolnick
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Hans Ekstein

A. Grossmann, R. Haag, and L. Stodolsky
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Physics and the military

Charles Schwartz
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Reagan and Mondale: Where each stands on science policy

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Few but telling changes in science budget

Irwin Goodwin
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VLBA: A Congressman's victory over NSF project

Irwin Goodwin
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House group begins science policy study

Irwin Goodwin
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Bloch wins Senate approval as NSF head

Irwin Goodwin
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Pentagon names chief Star Wars scientist

Irwin Goodwin
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Scientists in Congress likely to remain scarce but valued

William Sweet
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Navy funds scholarships for science fair winners

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In Brief

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Physics students work as summer interns at industrial labs

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Few women in senior faculty jobs

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Peer review issue still haunts research community

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Needed: more materials research at universities

Praveen Chaudhari
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