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July 1987

Volume 40, Issue 7

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Select this Article		Mass Extinctions Caused by Large Bolide Impacts Luis W. Alvarez


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Select this Article		Why Do Stars Emit X Rays? Eugene N. Parker


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Select this Article		AIP in 1986: An Annual Report H. William Koch


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Bubbles Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Challenger: A ‘Typical’ Accident James Samuel McKnight


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Select this Article		Phase Problems R. P. Millane and R. H. T. Bates


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Select this Article		The SSC vs Murphy's Law Robert J. Yaes and Edwin L. Goldwasser


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Select this Article		Einstein and Germany L. R. B. Elton, W. Krause, and Fritz Stern


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Select this Article		Physics Olympiad E. G. Sheeburne, Jr., Lu J. Sham, and Jack M. Wilson


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Select this Article		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		High T_c May Not Need Phonons; Supercurrents Increase Anil Khurana


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BOOKS

Select this Article		A Chatty Survey of a Prominent Scientific Institution Gwendy Caroe and Lawrence Badash, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Nuclear Energy: A Sensible Alternative Karl O. Ott, Bernard I. Spinrad, and David Bodansky, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Electro‐Optics Lewis J. Pinson and Peter K. Cheo, Reviewer


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Select this Article		An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems Robert L. Devaney and Jean‐Pierre Eckmann, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb and The Dragon's Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942–1946 Vincent C. Jones, Barton C. Hacker, and J. Samuel Walker, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Young Einstein: The Advent of Relativity Lewis Pyenson and Jeremy Bernstein, Reviewer


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Select this Article		My Daughter Beatrice: A Personal Memoir of Dr. Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Edward Hill and Melba Phillips, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Templetons Honored for Work in Crystallography


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Select this Article		ASP 1987 Bruce Medal to Salpeter; 1986 Medal to Whipple


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Jerrold Reinach Zacharias Herman Feshbach, Anthony P. French, Albert G. Hill, and John G. King


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Select this Article FREE		Kark Heinz Backurts Wolfgang Gläser


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Select this Article FREE		Roman U. Sexl Peter C. Aichelburg, Helmut Kühnetl, and Anthony P. French


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Select this Article FREE		Heinz Bilz Manuel Cardona


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Select this Article FREE		John J. Livingood Ron Martin, Roy Ringo, and Lee Teng


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Select this Article FREE		William L. Williams Robert R. Lewis, Arthur Rich, T. Michael Sanders, and Jens C. Zorn


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Select this Article FREE		Harald Zingl Michael J. Moravcsik


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Select this Article FREE		William W. Beeman H. H. Barschall and Paul Kaesberg


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Select this Article FREE		Lawrence W. Davis


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Sally Ride to Leave NASA Orbit; Exodus at NSF Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Despite Cuts, Basic Research Survives and Revives at Exxon William Sweet


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Select this Article		Jülich Lab Sets New Priorities, Opens Neutron Guide Hall William Sweet


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Select this Article		Rigden is New Physics Director at AIP


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Select this Article		Wolfe is Managing Editor at Computers in Physics


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Select this Article		In Brief


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NEWS FROM APS

Select this Article		Goldin and Romm are Selected to be Congressional Fellows


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CALENDAR

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