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April 1984

Volume 37, Issue 4

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Time‐resolution experiments using x‐ray synchrotron radiation

Dennis M. Mills
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Scientists in fields ranging from condensed‐matter physics to biochemistry are taking advantage of the natural temporal structure of the high‐intensity x rays emitted by sources of synchrotron radiation.

The art and physics of soaring

Lloyd Hunter
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With the advent of modern molded composite materials, the performance of sailplanes has improved dramatically and sparked a renaissance in the sport.

The renaissance of x‐ray optics

James H. Underwood and David T. Attwood
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New optical elements such as multilayer mirrors and zone‐plate lenses allow the extension of imaging and holography techniques to the spectral region below 300 Å.

Shape‐memory phenomena

Ahmad A. Golestaneh
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The martensite transformation, first noticed in steels in the nineteenth century, gives materials properties that depend on their histories and that allow them to recover earlier shapes after apparently plastic deformation.
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Still more on first computer

A. R. Mackintosh
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Digesting the Dessertron

Wiley P. Kirk, George Snow, and Edward M. Tuftee
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Spelling crime

William R. Cook, Jr
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Treating cancer with neutrons

Lawrence Cranberg, Jon M. Meese, and D. Allan Bromley
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Physicists and the GRE

R. E. Fornes, J. D. Memory, D. W. Steward, and J. F. Arnold
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Polonium halos

Robert C. Wyckoff and Robert V. Gentry
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The truth about Rowland

Spencer R. Weart
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Oversight in overview

Joe E. Demuth and Phaedon Avouris
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No more Valentines: New induction detectors see no monopoles

Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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In Brief

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A Russian Childhood; Little Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky; and A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary

S. V. Kovalevskaya, Editor, B. Stillman, Editor, D. H. Kennedy, A. H. Koblitz, and Ann K. Stehney, Reviewer
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Optoelectronics: An Introduction

J. Wilson, J. F. B. Hawkes, and Dennis G. Hall, Reviewer
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Waves and Photons: An Introduction to Quantum Physics

E. Goldin and Govind Agrawal, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Wolf prizes in physics for Hahn, Hirsch and Maiman

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Eirich receives Bingham medal

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Newton biography receives award

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1983 Simon Prize to David O. Edwards

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Han to receive first Dillon Medal

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Laser Institute of America awards 1983 Schawlow Medal

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In Brief

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Joseph E. Mayer

Elliott W. Montroll, Harold J. Raveché, and Jerald A. Devore
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Arthur C. Keller

F. K. Harvey
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Erich Stefan Weibel

R. A. Stern
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Isidor Walerstein

Vivian Johnson and Hubert James
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Shang‐keng Ma

Joseph C. Y. Chen, Jeffrey Prentis, and Sheldon Schultz
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William R. Fredrickson

Henry Levinstein and John W. Trischka
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Training science bachelors to teach in high schools

Klaus Schultz
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Reagan's 1985 R&D budget: defense boom, physics boomlet

Irwin Goodwin
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During lull at NASA, space science soars overseas

David Helfand
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What now for Sakharov and Orlov?

Irwin Goodwin
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Mattox is new Vacuum Society president‐elect

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Crystallographers elect Newnham vice‐president

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Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics established

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Topical Groups of APS to be formed

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Society affirms support for free communication

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Firmer support for space science

Harold L. Davis
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