Follow us: Facebook    Twitter    rss    E-mail alert
Search Issue | Previous Next

December 1989

Volume 42, Issue 12

Issue Cover
back to top
RSS Feeds

The Unification of Electromagnetism with the Weak Force

Paul Langacker and Alfred K. Mann
OpenURL
Show Topic
Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism and optics. The theory that now unifies quantum electrodynamics with the weak nuclear force is a comparable triumph.

George Uhlenbeck and the Discovery of Electron Spin

Abraham Pais
OpenURL
Show Topic
How two young Dutchmen, one with only o master's degree, the other a graduate student, made a most important finding in theoretical atomic physics.

An APS President Reflects on His Two‐Year Term

Val L. Fitch
OpenURL
Show Topic
Reflections on a two‐year term as APS president include on appraisal of the society's study on directed‐energy weapons, remarks on the importance of good technical advice in forming national policy and a few thoughts on challenges facing the physics community.
back to top
RSS Feeds

On the Calculation of the Fine‐Structure Constant

David J. Gross
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Free Exchange on Green Bank vs Max Planck

P. G. Mezger and Bernard F. Burke
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Radon: Paradigms and Precipitation

Harvey M. Sachs, Anthony V. Nero, Jr., Glenn I. Lykken, and Scott Chapin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

How ‘Frustration’ Set In

Gérard Toulouse
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Prizes and Their Problems

Rustum Roy, Caroline L. Herzenberg, John Mevissen, Allan Widom, and George Wallerstein
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

A‐Bomb History in the Making

Lawrence G. Rubin and Barton J. Bernstein
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Maryland Centers in on Superconductivity

Richard L. Greene
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Honor Engineers with an Un‐Draper Award

Brian Reid
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Another Reading of ‘Inbreeding’

Anthony V. Nero, Jr. and Jeffrey H. Bair
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Max Dresden's School for Schoolteachers

Bernard O'Connor, Jr.
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Boltzmann's Constant: To ‘B’ or Not to ‘B’?

C. B. Richardson
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Correction

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Ramsey, Dehmelt, Paul Win Nobel for Helping to Set High Standards

Barbara Goss Levi
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Journey into Light: Life and Science of C. V. Raman

G. Venkataraman and Anant Krishna Ramdas, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Tests of the Standard Theory of Electroweak Interactions

Christian Kiesling and Paul Langacker, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Introduction to the Structure of Matter: A Course in Modern Physics and Concepts of Modern Physics and Essentials of Modern Physics and Modern Physics

John J. Brehm, William J. Mullin, Arthur Beiser, T. R. Sandin, Hans C. Ohanian, and William F. Hornyak, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Principles of Statistical Radiophysics

S. M. Rytov, Yu. A. Kravtsov, V. I. Tatarskii, and Alexander E. Kaplan, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Electrophotography and Development Physics

L. B. Schein and Karel K. Czanderna, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Angular Momentum: Understanding Spatial Aspects in Chemistry and Physics

Richard N. Zare and William G. Harter, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

New Books

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

New Products

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Geophysical Union Salutes Excellent Work in the Field

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

George E. Uhlenbeck

Max Dresden
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
FREE

James C. Kemp

Russell J. Donnelly
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Fusion in a Flask: Expert DOE Panel Throws Cold Water on Utah ‘Discovery’

Irwin Goodwin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Academy Group Observes Astronomy in Cloudy Period of Budget Cuts

Irwin Goodwin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Corporate Associates Meet at GM, Focus on Competition

William Sweet
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

AIP Awards Made to Amaldi, Holton, Redington and Littmann

Jean Kumagai
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Bahcall is President‐Elect of AAS

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Kuchnir and Simon are Co‐Winners of Undergraduate Apker Award

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
Close

close