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August 1988

Volume 41, Issue 8

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Reflections on Early Work on ‘Big Bang’ Cosmology

Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman
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The standard model of the universe's development—the hot Big Bang—is successful in accounting for the fossil cosmic background radiation and the high, uniform cosmic abundance of helium.

Atomic Spectroscopy and Astrophysics

Leo Goldberg
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In this personal retrospective, the author shows how laboratory work on the interaction between matter and radiation unites physics and astronomy and has frequently led to major discoveries in astrophysics.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Aiyasami Jayaraman and Anant Krishna Ramdas
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India's ‘great savant’ of science made deep contributions to acoustics, physical optics, magnetism, molecular physics and especially to our understanding of the scattering of light by matter.
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What's Wrong with this Library?

N. David Mermin
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Widening the Field of SSC Magnet Competitors

F. Russell Huson, Peter M. McIntyre, and Maury Tigner
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Science Burdened by Bureaucrats

Hyman Olken and Philip E. Coyle
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Keep Space Promises Down to Earth

Z. F. Daneš
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Physics Pro Bono Redux

Geoffrey G. Eichholz and Jan Beyea
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A New Spin on an Old Rotation

William P. Bidelman
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Make Assistantships Available to PhDs

James J. Klein
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Recognition for Waldemar Voigt

William T. Doyle and Nicholas Rott
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Correction

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Short‐Wavelength Distortions Seen in the Cosmic Background Radiation

Per H. Andersen
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First Echoes from SN1987a…87a…87a

Margaret Marynowski
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New Techniques and Ideas in Quantum Measurement Theory and The 2nd International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology

Daniel M. Greenberger, Mikio Namiki, Yoshio Ohnuki, Yoshimasa Murayama, Sadao Nomura, and Bernard d'Espagnat, Reviewer
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The Mechanical Universe Telecourse

Larry D. Kirkpatrick, Reviewer and Gerald F. Wheeler, Reviewer
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Eye on the Sky: Lick Observatory's First Century and James E. Keeler: Pioneer American Astrophysicist (and the Early Development of American Astrophysics)

Donald E. Osterbrock, John R. Gustafson, W. J. Shiloh Unruh, and Jesse L. Greenstein, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Drickamer Receives Cresson Medal of Franklin Institute

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Pimentel Receives ACS Medal

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American Academy Elects New Fellows

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Macchesney Receives Common Wealth Award

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In Brief

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Leonard S. Goodman

William J. Childs and Roy Ringo
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Aneesur Rahman

Sunil K. Sinha, Ivan K. Schuller, Ted A. Postol, Michele Parrinello, and Charles E. Campbell
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Erich Bloch: On Changing Times and Angry Scientists at NSF

Irwin Goodwin
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Is this Any Way to Advise Presidents on Science and Technology Problems?

Irwin Goodwin
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Regulation of Sensitive Nuclear Materials at Issue in German Inquiry

William Sweet
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Scientists in Argentina and Britain Formulate ‘Hippocratic Oaths’

William Sweet
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Job Market for Physics Bachelors is Less Attractive

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