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March 1987

Volume 40, Issue 3

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The First Electronic Computer

Allan R. Mackintosh
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John Vincent Atanasoff, a theoretical physicist faced with tedious quantum mechanical computations, built an electronic device that featured binary logic, regenerative memory and vector processing in 1939.

Forensic Physics of Vehicle Accidents

Arthur C. Damask
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The reconstruction of accidents and the analysis of the mechanisms of injury are the focuses of an emerging interdisciplinary field that is leading to safer vehicle design.

The Coupled Cluster Method

Raymond F. Bishop and Hermann G. Kümmel
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Decomposing the wavefunction of a many‐particle system in terms of amplitudes for exciting clusters of a finite number of particles yields a versatile and high‐precision tool of many‐body theory.
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On Complexity

Leo P. Kadanoff
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An ‘SSC’ for Condensed Matter

Stuart Lindsay and Herman Feshbach
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The SSCene Creed

Sanford Wilson and Ernest Lewis
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How to Slice a Research Pie

E. R. Menzel
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Superstrings: Another View

G. Rajasekaran and San Fu Tuan
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India: Another ‘Pioneer’

Harjit S. Ahluwallia
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Refuseniks' Thanks

Isai Goldstein and Grigory Goldstein
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Refuseniks' Plight

Louis J. Lanzerotti, A. Hasegawa, Allen Wolfe, Michael J. Gerver, and George Bekefi
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Interpreting Quasar Redshifts

Per Maltby, Jay M. Pasachoff, and John Kierein
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Correction

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Editorial

James D. Bjorken
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Herschbach, Lee and Polanyi Receive 1986 Chemistry Nobel

Per H. Andersen
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Still More Squeezing of Optical Noise

Barbara Goss Levi
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CLEO and IQEC in Baltimore

Margaret Marynowski
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Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering

Michael B. Bever and Charles B. Duke, Reviewer
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Supermanifolds

Bryce de Witt and Matt Visser, Reviewer
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Random Walks in Biology

Howard C. Berg and Freeman Dyson, Reviewer
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Complex Systems—Operational Approaches in Neurobiology, Physics and Computers

Hermann Haken and Francisco Varela, Reviewer
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Synergetics: From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order

Eckart Frehland and Jean‐Pierre Dupuy, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Three Receive APS Plasma Physics Awards

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Harold Grad

Albert A. Blank
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Clifford Keith Beck

William G. Pollard and Donald B. Trauger
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Henry Levinstein

Nathan Ginsberg and H. W. Berry
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Joyce Alvin Bearden

Richard D. Deslattes and Brian R. Judd
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Reagan Endorses the SSC, a Colossus Among Colliders

Irwin Goodwin
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Exploratorium Influences Science Museums New and Old

William Sweet
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White Takes Up Oppenheimer's Mantle at Exploratorium

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Schwartz of Brooklyn College is New APS Education Officer

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Grants Available for Conference Travel

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Calendar

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