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Select this Article		How to address the American Physical Society Karl K. Darrow


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Select this Article		How big is a cell? Joseph G. Hoffman


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Select this Article		The stockpiling and rationing of scientific manpower Henry D. Smyth


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Select this Article		Scientific liaison offices Dwight E. Gray


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Select this Article		Flow Phenomena E. K. Fischer and R. S. Marvin


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Select this Article		Joseph Henry, His Life and Work Thomas Coulson and Leigh Page, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Hydrodynamics Garrett Birkhoff and R. D. Richtmyer, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Briefly Noted


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Select this Article		High Altitude Laboratories Serge A. Korff


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Select this Article		Washington Debate


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Select this Article		1950 Nobel Prize in Physics


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