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April 1989

Volume 42, Issue 4

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Laser Optics of Neutral Atomic Beams

Victor I. Balykin and Vladilen S. Letokhov
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Charged‐particle beams are easily manipulated by magnets. Beams of neutral atoms pose a harder problem. A new atomic‐beam optics is using fields of laser light to serve as lenses and mirrors.

Earth, Air, Radon and Home

Anthony Nero
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These four elements of our environment interact to deliver the largest radiation dose we receive—equivalent to what the world's population would get from several Chernobyls per year.

Mr. Eliot's Guide to Quantum Theory

John Lowell


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Three recently discovered poems suggest that T.S. Eliot might have been a remarkably prescient student of physics
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What's Wrong with this Pillow?

N. David Mermin
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Should Quantum Physics Go Unquestioned?

Bryson Brown, Peter W. Milonni, K. V. Laurikainen, Mano Singham, Elias P. Gyftopoulos, James L. Park, Oreste Piccioni, Werner Mehlhop, Brian Wright, James I. Berg, Herman Feshbach, and Victor F. Weisskopf
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SSC: Don't Name this One for the Gipper

Mark Gross
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Who Perceived the Perovskite?

Lin‐Gun Liu and Raymond Jeanloz
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The High Price of a Low Cost of Living

Peter Feibelman
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Keep Colloquialisms Out of Colloquia

Richard Branham
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Let's Call a Chemist a Chemist

James L. Dye
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Electron Superconductors Challenge Theories, Start a New Race

Anil Khurana
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Cleo‐Qels to Be Held in Baltimore

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Nonlinear Physics: From the Pendulum to Turbulence and Chaos

R. Z. Sagdeev, D. A. Usikov, G. M. Zaslavsky, Yves Pomeau, Reviewer, Eric Siggia, Reviewer, and Uriel Frisch, Reviewer
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Vospominania ob Igore Vasilieviche Kurchatove [Recollections about Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov]

Anatolii Aleksandrov and Mark Kuchment, Reviewer
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Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union

Loren R. Graham and Eugene Lashchyk, Reviewer
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Kinetics of Nonequilibrium Low‐Temperature Plasmas

L. M. Biberman, V. S. Vorob'ev, I. T. Yakubov, and Joseph L. Cecchi, Reviewer
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Laser Analytical Spectrochemistry and Laser Photoionization Spectroscopy and Photoacoustic and Thermal Wave Phenomena in Semiconductors

V. S. Letokhov, Vladilen S. Letokhov, A. Mandelis, and Richard Lee, Reviewer
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Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas: A Tribute to Arthur L. Schawlow

William M. Yen, Marc D. Levenson, and R. E. Slusher, Reviewer
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Exercises in Astronomy

Josip Kleczek and Jay M. Pasachoff, Reviewer
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Radon and Its Decay Products in Indoor Air and Indoor Radon and Its Hazards and Environmental Radon

William Nazaroff, Anthony Nero, David Bodansky, Maurice A. Robkin, David R. Stadler, C. Richard Cothern, James E. Smith, and Lynn M. Hubbard, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Liquid Helium

John Wilks, David S. Betts, and Robert B. Hallock, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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DOE Honors Setlow and Weisskopf with Fermi Award

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Rashid Sunyaev Wins 1988 Rossi Prize

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Ewen and Purcell with Tinsley Prize

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Physicists Elected Foreign Members of Soviet Academy

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In Brief

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John W. Schweitzer
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Mylar Giri

Moses Chan, Milton Cole, and Attilio Stella
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While Science Advice Pours in, Bush Dawdles on Science Adviser

Irwin Goodwin
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Universities Reach into Pork Barrel with Help from Friends in Congress

Irwin Goodwin
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Three Reports on Mathematics Emphasize Reasoning Over Rote

Corey S. Powell
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Report Out on Green Bank Collapse; Replacement Poses Quandary for NSF

Per H. Andersen and William Sweet
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FAS and Brazilian Physicists Discuss Improved Nuclear Safeguards

William Sweet
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Germans Tighten Export Rules Amid Spreading Scandals

William Sweet
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Navy and Army Initiate ASAT Programs, with Test Ban Lifted

William Sweet
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Physicists Protest Treatment by PRC of Fang Lizhi

William Sweet
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