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December 1986

Volume 39, Issue 12

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Popular and Unpopular Ideas in Particle Physics

Martin L. Perl
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As particle physics becomes a deeper but more difficult field, there is too much emphasis on fashionable ideas and the search for anomalies, and too little reward for improving accelerators and detectors.

The Cost of Physics Journals

Henry H. Barschall
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Prices that libraries pay for subscriptions vary widely among journals; for physics and mathematics publications the cost per character varies by as much as a factor of 40.

The Devil's Staircase

Per Bak
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When the interaction between an oscillator and its driver is strong enough, the oscillator will resonate at, or “lock” onto, an infinity of driving frequencies, giving rise to steps with a fractal dimension between 0 and 1.

Hideki Yukawa and the Meson Theory

Laurie M. Brown
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Some 50 years ago, in his first research contribution, a young Japanese theoretical physicist explained the strong, short‐range force between neutrons and protons as due to an exchange of “heavy quanta.”
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The Road to Four Dimensions

Herman Feshbach
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Superconducting Super Collider

Charles J. Hailey, Gordon R. Freeman, Pedro M. Echenique, and Sheldon L. Glashow
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Supercomputer Access

Howard D. Greyber, Robert L. Park, and Brandee L. Telford
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Negotiating Arms with Russia

Edgar Villchur and Robert S. Flum, Sr.
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‘Physics Classroom Revisited’

James G. Batterson
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Polarized Scattering

Chih Kwan Chen
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History Repeats

Katuhisa Suzuki
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Corrections

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Soviets Assess Cause of Chernobyl Accident

Barbara Goss Levi
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Ozone Hole Attributed to Solar Maximum

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Concert Hall Acoustics

Yoichi Ando and Leo L. Beranek, Reviewer
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Spinors and Space‐Time, Volume 2: Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space‐Time Geometry

Roger Penrose, Wolfgang Rindler, and Joshua N. Goldberg, Reviewer
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General Biophysics, Volumes I and II

M. V. Volkenstein and Arthur C. Damask, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Libchaber and Turco are Among New MacArthur Fellows

Jesse Hochstadt
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Frieman Replaces Nierenberg at Scripps

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Peierls and Woolfson Honored by the Royal Society

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Jacobson Receives 1986 AAS Rossi Prize

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Jürgen Geiger

Manfred Fink and Russell A. Bonham
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Albert Dary Crowell

John Brown, John Krizan, and Wesley Nyborg
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R&D Fares Well in 1987 Budget as Congress Fights Deficit

Irwin Goodwin
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OMB Formulates a 3.6% Solution for University Overhead

Irwin Goodwin
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Deutch Suggests ONR as Model for a DOD Research Agency

Irwin Goodwin
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Plans Advance for Synchrotron at Grenoble, a ‘Physics Pole’

William Sweet
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Ford is New AIP Executive Director

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Corporate Associates Meet at Exxon R&E

William Sweet
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Goldsmith Receives AIP Science‐Writing Award

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AAPM Chooses Barnes to be President‐Elect for 1987

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Browder is Named Outstanding SPS Chapter Adviser in 1986

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In Brief

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Krumhansl Elected Vice‐President for 1987 in APS Balloting

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Nuclear Power After Chernobyl

Herbert Kouts
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