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November 1988

Volume 41, Issue 11

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Chaos: How Regular Can It Be?

Alexander A. Chernikov, Roald Z. Sagdeev, and George M. Zaslavsky
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Deterministic classical chaos can show up in conservative physical systems as simple as a forced swinging pendulum, yet underlying symmetries in these systems yield order within the apparently random motions.

Superconductivity Research: A Different View

John M. Rowell
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Will the US eventually lose the race to commercialize superconductivity? Or is the race already lost? Here is one person's perspective on the worldwide competition in high‐Tc superconductivity.

Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s

Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson
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As high‐energy nuclear physics became particle physics, revolutions occurred not only in models and technique but also in social organization.
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How Do You Spell ‘Lagrangian’?

N. Sadanand, Reuben Rudman, K. E. Rieckhoff, Roger Taylor, John K. Dienes, Jerome Rothstein, and N. David Mermin
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Outsiders’ Views of Phys. Rev. Letters

N. L. Balazs, George Basbas, Irving A. Lerch, Robert Joel Yaes, and Laurence Passell
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SSC Might Not Be Money in the Bank

William Moellering, Edwin L. Goldwasser, Gordon L. Kane, and Martin B. Einhorn
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Dense Matter in Formation

Joe Kapusta
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Einstein Auf Englisch: Warum Nicht?

Daniel Greenberger and Walter H. Lippincott
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Does Pressure Pique Productivity?

Alwyn Eades
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α ν γ. How About You?

Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman
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Halley: A Name that Lives on in Mortality

Ed Waymire
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Corrections

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Are the Ultra‐Energetic Cosmic Gammas Really Photons?

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Ballistic Electron Transport Through a Narrow Channel is Quantized

Anil Khurana
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Materials Research Society Meets in Boston

Matthew Siegel
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Galactic Dynamics

James Binney, Scott Tremaine, and Donald Lynden‐Bell, Reviewer
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Introduction to Superstrings

Michio Kaku and John Schwarz, Reviewer
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A Brief History of Time

Stephen W. Hawking and James L. Anderson, Reviewer
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Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies

Halton Arp and Martin J. Rees, Reviewer
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Quasar Astronomy

Daniel W. Weedman and Bradley M. Peterson, Reviewer
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Atomic Collisions and Spectra

U. Fano, A. R. P. Rau, and John S. Briggs, Reviewer
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Dynamics of Josephson Junctions and Circuits

Konstantin K. Likharev and James Lukens, Reviewer
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Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein

Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach, and Nancy J. Nersessian, Reviewer
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Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing

Charles Elachi and Peter D. Zimmerman, Reviewer
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Theory of Planetary Atmospheres: An Introduction to Their Physics and Chemistry

Joseph W. Chamberlain, Donald M. Hunten, and Per H. Andersen, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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AAS Awards a Galaxy of Prizes to Some of Its Brightest Stars

Per H. Andersen
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AGU Honors Abelson and Three Medalists

Margaret Marynowski
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In Brief

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Herbert L. Anderson

Darragh Nagle
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Seth H. Neddermeyer

Ronald Geballe, Jere J. Lord, and John F. Streib
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Perils of Aging US Weapons Plants Stir Outrage and Fear of a ‘Time Bomb’

Irwin Goodwin and Corey S. Powell
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Academy of Engineering Sets Up Big Prize Hoping to Rival Nobels

Irwin Goodwin
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AIP Releases First Major Survey of High School Physics Teachers

William Sweet
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Duchamp is Elected Vice President of Crystallographers

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AIP Salary Survey Registers Large One‐Year Increase

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AGU Selects 12th Congressional Fellow

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EPRI Makes First Award in Memory of Thornton

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Peoples is New Deputy Director of Fermilab

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Blosser Steps Down As Michigan State Laboratory Head

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