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June 1986

Volume 39, Issue 6

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Special Issue: The Education of the Professeional Physicist

William C. Kelly
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Physics in the Colleges

Jerry P. Gollub and Neal B. Abraham
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Undergraduate institutions train a large proportion of the students who eventually earn PhDs in physics; research enhances the education of their students and the professional life of their faculty.

Education for Research

Malcolm R. Beasley and Lawrence W. Jones
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The doctorate is the formative educational experience for professional physicists, and while PhD education is healthy, universities face the problems of deteriorating equipment and an aging faculty.

Consider Graduate‐Student Life

Llyod J. Whitman
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Foreign Physics Graduate Students in the United States

Mark N. McDermott and Edward W. Thomas
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Foreign citizens have become an integral part of the practice of physics in the United States, helping to staff research and teaching programs in universities and remaining after graduation to help avert shortages of research manpower.

Beyond the Ivory Tower

Bruce M. Schechter
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Academia is the traditional training ground for research in physics but only a minority of PhDs continue working there—does their academic training provide them with a good basis for a career in industry?

Becoming a Professional Physicist: A Statistical Overview

Beverly Fearn Porter and Roman Czujko
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Fewer Americans are pursuing graduate studies in physics—despite increasing employment opportunities—but the number of foreign graduate students in American universities has increased dramatically.

Women Graduate Students

Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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Science Needs Both the Big and the Little

Herman Feshbach
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Problem Exposed by Solar‐Neutrino Work

Alfred K. Mann
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Microphysical Reality

Włodzisław Duch and Diederik Aerts
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Ouousque Tandem, EPR?

Ernst Breitenberger
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Heisenberg and Nuclear Physics

Laurie M. Brown and Arthur I. Miller
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The Balancing Act

Lui Lam and Kenneth Laws
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Identifying ‘The First’

Jay Kangel
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Educating Teachers

Paul A. Smith
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Gravitational‐Constant Data

George T. Gillies
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Conversion in Matter May Account for Missing Solar Neutrinos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Plastic Ball Flies to CERN—And Higher Energies

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The X‐Ray Universe

Wallace Tucker, Riccardo Giacconi, and Jay M. Pasachoff, Reviewer
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Computational Physics

Steven E. Koonin and Peter B. Kramer, Reviewer
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Fiber Optics: Technology and Applications

Steward D. Personick and P. K. Cheo, Reviewer
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Foundations of Radiation Hydrodynamics

Dimitri Mihalas, Barbara Weibel Mihalas, Albert Fu, Reviewer, and W. David Arnett, Reviewer
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White‐Light Optical Signal Processing

Francis T. S. Yu and Edward L. O'Neill, Reviewer
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Solitons and Particles

Claudio Rebbi and Giulio Soliani
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New Books

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New Products

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APS Honors Seven at Spring Meeting

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Maxwell, Plasma and Laporte Awards

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Commonwealth Award to Aspect

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In Brief

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Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz

Ya. Zel'dovich, M. Kaganov, and L. Pitaevskii
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Edwin Albrecht Uehling

Ronald Geballe, Eberhard Riedel, and John Bjorkstam
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David J. Rose

William P. Allis, Elias P. Gyftopoulos, and Richard K. Lester
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Laura Eisenstein

Hans Frauenfelder and Peter G. Debrunner
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James Daniel Hardy

Robert Adair and Eleanor Adair
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Ronald D. Parks

Robert P. Guertin, Marten DenBoer, and Samuel J. Williamson
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NSB Panel Wants NSF to Lead Drive to Improve College Labs

William Sweet
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Survery of Materials Research is Launched

Irwin Goodwin
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Fuqua to Retire after 12 Terms in House

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US and Soviet Academies Sign Agreement

William Sweet
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APS and Academy Members Polled on SDI; Physicists Mobilize

William Sweet
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APS Groups Discuss SDI Impact on Physics

William Sweet
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AIP Reports on Enrollments and Degrees

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Triangle Education Coalition Picks Up Members and Support

William Sweet
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AIP Hires Condell to Head Its New Office in Washington, DC

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AIP Writing Award Goes to Journalist Fisher

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APS and Chinese Sign New Memorandum of Understanding

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Education of Professional Physicists

Robert Beck Clark
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