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February 1986

Volume 39, Issue 2

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Newton and the Infinite Universe

Edward Harrison
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Newton said that if the starry heavens were of finite extent they would “fall down to the middle” and there “compose one great spherical mass,” yet he avoided calculating the time for gravitational collapse.

New Technology for Science: Where Will it Come From?

Lewis M. Branscomb
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Furthering scientific excellence at all levels is a Federal mission; like other missions it deserves support for fundamental engineering research.

Einstein and Germany

Fritz Stern
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The native German physicist, unlike many of his colleagues, had an early antipathy to German nationalism, so that for him, Hitlerism was a confirmation of an earlier intuition.
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Fractals: Where's the Physics?

Leo P. Kadanoff
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Super Collider

Clarence A. Gall, Sheldon L. Glashow, Robert J. Yaes, and P. J. van Heerden
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Funding Big Science

Stanley Wojcicki and Rustum Roy
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Strategic Defense Initiative

Gordon W. McClure and Thornton Page
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Strategic Misguidance

Robert S. Flum, Sr. and Herbert Lin
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‘Refusenik’ Physicists

Joel L. Lebowitz
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Correction

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Searching for Gravity Waves with Interferometers

Bruce Schechter
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Superconducting‐Cavity Progress Spurs New CEBAF Design

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Spinors and Space‐Time, Volume I: Two‐Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields

Roger Penrose, Wolfgang Rindler, and Joshua N. Goldberg, Reviewer
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An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science

Clifford Truesdell and David Park, Reviewer
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Molecular Semiconductors: Photoelectrical Properties and Solar Cells

Jacques Simon, Jean‐Jacques André, and Esther Conwell, Reviewer
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Medical Physics, Volume III: Synapse, Neuron, Brain

Arthur C. Damask, Charles E. Swenberg, John R. Cameron, Reviewer, and Steve Orman, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Books

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New Products

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TI Founders' Prize to Winograd

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Burbridge Named 1985 Jansky Lecturer by NRAO

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In Brief

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Philip M. Morse

Herman Feshbach
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Peter Braun

Rudolf Dobrozemsky
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Harmon Hastings Plumb

James F. Schooley
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George E. Moore

A. H. White, Robert J. Hart, and Sol Raboy
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Beryl Potter

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CEBAF Wins Praise for Design, But Its Future is Uncertain

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Ins and Outs: New Faces at DOD, DOE and White House

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Keyworth: Parting Shots from the White House Science Office

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Wilson, French Testify on Teaching Needs to NSB Panel

William Sweet
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IBM Sponsors New York Exploratorium Show

William Sweet
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British Science Adviser Resigns Too

Irwin Goodwin
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AAPT Elects Resnick Vice‐President

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AIP History Center Wins Award from Archivists' Society

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Hecker Succeeds Kerr as Head of Los Alamos Laboratory

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Latest AIP Employment Survey Finds Strong Job Market

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Widnall of MIT is New President‐Elect of AAAS

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Paul‐Henri Rebut is Director of Joint European Torus

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Five SPS Chapters Win 1986 Allied Awards

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In Brief

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Committe on Minorities Makes Film, Starts Newsletter

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Applied Astronomy

James R. Wertz
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