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January 1989

Volume 42, Issue 1

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Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Serge Haroche and Daniel Kleppner
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A new generation of experiments shows that spontaneous radiation from excited atoms can be greatly suppressed or enhanced by placing the atoms between mirrors or in cavities.

Using Computers in Teaching Physics

Jack M. Wilson and Edward F. Redish
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Computers can revolutionize not only the way we teach physics but also what physics we teach.

The Site Contest for Fermilab

Catherine L. Westfall
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More than 20 years ago 46 states fought to become the home of the largest particle accelerator of the era, the 200‐BeV machine. The AEC decision has been haunted by political questions ever since.

Special Supplement Physics News in 1988

Phillip F. Schewe
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What's Wrong With These Prizes?

N. David Mermin
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How Broadly to Take Temperature?

George F. Bertsch


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Life Styles of the Rich (And Physicists)

Mark S. Miller and William W. Havens
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Where the Academic Elite Meet to Inbreed

Jeffrey H. Bair
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Corrections

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Physics Nobel Prize to Lederman, Schwartz and Steinberger

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Pulsars Shed New Light on Evolution of Binary Stars

Per H. Andersen
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The Viscous Criterion

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Two scientists at the General Motors Research Laboratories have developed a way to predict the probability and severity of impact injuries in the body's soft tissues, including the heart, liver, and the central nervous system. It is an essential step in designing safety systems to reduce such injuries.
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Temperature Fluctuation: A Well‐Defined and Unavoidable Notion

Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology and Solutions Manual to Accompany Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Russell K. Hobbie and John Wikswo, Reviewer
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Galileo Heretic

Pietro Redondi and Ernan McMullin, Reviewer
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Introductory Nuclear Physics

Kenneth S. Krane and William G. Lynch, Reviewer
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Collider Physics

Vernon D. Barger, Roger J. N. Phillips, and James L. Siegrist, Reviewer
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Gauge Field Theories

Stefan Pokorski, Paul H. Frampton, and Howard Georgi, Reviewer
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Differential Geometry, Gauge Theories and Gravity

M. Göckeler, T. Schücker, and Rafael I. Nepomechie, Reviewer
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Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Robert Kargon, Peter Achinstein, and Laurie M. Brown, Reviewer
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The Quantum Universe

Tony Hey, Patrick Walters, and Robert H. March, Reviewer
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Wolf Foundation Honors Hawking and Penrose for Work in Relativity

Matthew Siegel
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Richard Christian

Francis T. Cole, Donald W. Kerst, Frank J. Loeffler, and Robert Serber
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William A. Steyert

Andrew C. Anderson, William E. Keller, William N. Lawless, Ralph C. Longsworth, and Raymond E. Sarwinski
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NSF Selects 11 Science Centers as Boon to US Competitiveness

Irwin Goodwin
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Sakharov Elected to Presidium of Soviet Academy of Sciences

William Sweet, Irwin Goodwin, and Gloria B. Lubkin
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Us, Europeans, Canada and Japan Conclude Space Station Agreement

William Sweet
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Britain Will Remain in CERN; Management Reforms Adopted

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