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February 1988

Volume 41, Issue 2

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An Outsider's Inside View of the Challenger Inquiry

Richard P. Feynman
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In the course of diagnosing the technical causes of the Challenger space shuttle disaster, the author also formed some impressions of NASA and became acquainted with some of the pitfalls of participation in an official investigation.

Edmond Halley, Geophysicist

Michael E. Evans
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Famous for the comet that bears his name and for his efforts in getting Newton's Principia published, Halley was a founding father of geophysics holding a special interest in geomagnetism.

Roundtable: Physics Research in Industry

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PHYSICS TODAY convened eight men with broad perspectives on institutional research to exchange views on matters ranging from international technological competitiveness to physics education
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The Big, the Bad and the Beautiful

Leo P. Kadanoff
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What High Tc Means to Me

Serge Galam, Pierre Pfeuty, and B. S. Chandrasekhar
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Fusion Community's ‘Voice’ at DOE

Fred L. Ribe
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Mirrors in Space: How Costly?

Nicolaas Bloembergen and C. K. N. Patel
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Remembering PSSC's Early Days

Fred Rosebury
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Apologies for a Publication Postponed

W. Garczyński
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Superdeformed Nuclei Rotate So Fast They Make Heads Spin

Barbara Goss Levi
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Studies of New Superconductors Revive Old Questions

Anil Khurana
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Alternatives to the Superconducting Super Collider

Freeman Dyson
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Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick, James Glazier, Reviewer, and Gemunu Gunaratne, Reviewer
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Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Electronics

Max Schubert, Bernd Wilhelmi, and Lorenzo M. Narducci, Reviewer
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Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

Anthony Zee and Daniel M. Greenberger, Reviewer
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A Life in Science

Nevill Mott and Frank R. N. Nabarro, Reviewer
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Reminiscences about a Great Physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and Tributes to Paul Dirac

Behram N. Kursunoglu, Eugene P. Wigner, John G. Taylor, and Roger H. Stuewer, Reviewer
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Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy

Robert Chadwell Williams and David Holloway, Reviewer
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The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens

Gerald Holton and David Hafemeister, Reviewer
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Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 1: The Northern Hemisphere to −6°

Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, George Lovi, and Per H. Andersen, Reviewer
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The Particle Explosion

Frank Close, Michael Marten, Christine Sutton, and Per H. Andersen, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Acoustical Society Recognizes Seven with 1987 Awards

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In Brief

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David Adler

Nevill Mott, Stanford Ovshinsky, and Brian B. Schwartz
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New Booster Troubles Delay Shuttle as Advisory Groups Bash Nasa

Irwin Goodwin
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Sematech Group Selects Austin, Texas, in Effort to Regain Chip Dominance

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Ins & Outs: DOE's Snow Goes to Chicago; Marquet and Kerber Leave DOD

Irwin Goodwin
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Soviet Space Research Flies High 30 Years after Sputnik Launch

Gloria B. Lubkin
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CERN Council Will Oversee Management Reforms in 1988

William Sweet
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