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April 1988

Volume 41, Issue 4

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Flavor SU(3) Symmetries in Particle Physics

Howard Georgi
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Anyone who understands quantum mechanical harmonic oscillators can understand the role and significance of the flavor symmetries of the standard model.

Making Weapons, Talking Peace

Herbert F. York


See Also: Erratum

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A nuclear physicist and adviser to four Presidents, the author reflects on the development of nuclear weapons, the creation of a new lab to rival Los Alamos and the negotiation of the elusive comprehensive test ban treaty.

100 Years of Photoemission

Giorgio Margaritondo
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A century of scientific struggle has given us powerful photoemission spectroscopies for probing electronic structure and has brought us to the threshold of great advances based on new, high‐brightness sources of synchroton radiation.
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What's Wrong With This Lagrangean?

N. David Mermin
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RKKYologists Unearthed

Michael Stephen and Elihu Abrahams
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Minding One's Majorons

Shmuel Nussinov
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Attracting Tomorrow's Physicists Today

George Phillies
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Industry's Case of Mistaken Identity

Mark Friesel
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Reflecting on Liquid Mercury Mirrors

Edward M. Dickson
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'Tis a Gift to Be Simple

Jean P. Flanagan
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Corporate Job Security and the Bottom Line

David Klick
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A Very Special Theory of Relativity

K. Suchy
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Of Crays and Crationism

Edward H. Carlson, C. Gregory Seab, and Arthur S. Lodge
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Plaudits for PSSC Physics

Donald A. Schaefer
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Super Collider Magnet Program Pushes Toward Prototype

Barbara Goss Levi and Bertram Schwarzschild
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The Tc to Beat is 125 K

Anil Khurana
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A Super Time to Renormalize

Barbara Goss Levi
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CLEO '88 To Be Held In Anaheim

Margaret Marynowski
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The eighth Conference on Losers and Electro‐Optics will feature technical sessions on laser technologies and applications, awards and the year's largest exhibit of laser and electro‐optical equipment.
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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics

Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine, and Victor F. Weisskopf, Reviewer
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The Probabilistic Revolution, Volumes 1 and 2 and Volume 1; Ideas in History and Volume 2: Ideas in the Sciences

Lorenz Krüger, Lorraine J. Daston, Michael Heidelberger, Gerd Gigerenzer, Mary S. Morgan, and Stephen G. Brush, Reviewer
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The Hunting of the Quark: A Trued Story of Modern Physics

Michael Riordan and Alexander Firestone, Reviewer
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Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time

Julian Schwinger and Clifford M. Will, Reviewer
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Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures

Richard P. Feynman, Steven Weinberg, and Per H. Andersen, Reviewer
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Letters to Solovine

Albert Einstein and Per H. Andersen, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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APS Develops System to Manage Membership Data Services

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Five Receive Macarthur Fellowships in 1987

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In Brief

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Walter H. Brattain

John Bardeen
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Arthur H. Cooke

Werner P. Wolf
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Reagan's R&D Budget Looks Great, But Congress Has Some Other Ideas

Irwin Goodwin
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NSF, Under Siege by Physicists, Admits Mistakes in Research Cuts

Irwin Goodwin
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Report on West German Astronomy Stresses Need For Electronic Network

William Sweet
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Craven Will Succeed Berman as ACA President in 1989

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Wolff Head National Optical Observatories

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In Brief

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