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July 1985

Volume 38, Issue 7

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The Surface Muon Beam

Theodore Bowen
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One of the inventors of an intense, completely polarized muon beam that every ‘meson factory’ now provides discusses the bittersweet history of the invention and some of the recent experiments that it made possible.

Perspectives on the Presidency of the American Physical Society

Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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Leading the 35 000‐member organization in new directions, representing the physics community and continuing to make a personal contribution to the advance of knowledge, makes for an exciting but busy year.

AIP in 1984: A Year for Review and Endorsement

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This annual report reviews a period that saw continued growth for the Institute as well as an endorsement of its role and its governance by its Member Societies

The Magnetron and the Beginnings of the Microwave Age

James E. Brittain
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A device of little promise, originally developed in 1916 as an alternative to grid control in vacuum tubes, became in 1940 the key to the successful development of radar by the Allied forces during the Second World War.
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Orlov in Exile

Valentin F. Turchin
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Is the Moon There?

David Mermin
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Small‐Scale Research

Ray Hefferlin and D. Walsh
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Quasar Redshifts

I. E. Segal
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Tokamak Applications

Harold M. Agnew
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Einstein and the Vatican

Irving M. Klotz
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Peer Review

G. Adomian
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Nuclear Winter

W. D. Allen and Barbara G. Levi
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Correction

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Anomaly Cancellation Launches Superstring Bandwagon

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics

Andrew Pickering and Hugh N. Pendleton, Reviewer
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Atoms of Silence

Hubert Reeves and Eric J. Chaisson, Reviewer
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Microwave and Optical Ray Geometry

S. Cornbleet and C. Chapin Cutler, Reviewer
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Interstellar Chemistry

W. W. Duley, D. A. Williams, and Edwin E. Salpeter, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Franklin Institute Honors Eight Physicists

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Bethe Receives NSF Vannevar Bush Award

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Sun‐Yiu Fung, Anne Kernan, Benjamin Shen, and Tu‐Nan Chang
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Senators and Scientists Object to SDI Costs and Uncertainties

Irwin Goodwin
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Star Wars and the Debate Among Physicists

Irwin Goodwin
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Science Board and OSTP Want to Dump Academic Pork Barrel

Irwin Goodwin
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Riesenhuber Favors Cuts for CERN, is Cautious on SDI

William Sweet
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Physics Department Chairmen Meet Again

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APS Human Rights Committee Works on Soviet Cases, Poland

William Sweet
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Stix Urges Physicists to Express Concerns to Soviet Counterparts

William Sweet
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Calendar

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Lustig Elected Treasurer, Forman Deputy Executive Secretary

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A Threat to Scientific Communication

Robert R. Wilson
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