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October 1990

Volume 43, Issue 10

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Atomic Force Microscopy

Daniel Rugar and Paul Hansma
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It is surprisingly easy to make a cantilever with a spring constant weaker than the equivalent spring between atoms, allowing a sharp tip to image both conducting and nonconducting samples at atomic resolution.

New Mechanisms for Laser Cooling

Claude N. Cohen‐Tannoudji and William D. Phillips
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Optical pumping and light shifts have unexpectedly conspired to improve laser cooling by orders of magnitude and to produce the lowest kinetic temperatures ever measured.

Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior: Goals and Trends

Thorne Lay, Thomas J. Ahrens, Peter Olson, Joseph Smyth, and David Loper
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Profound opportunities for understanding the mysteries of the inner Earth lie within reach. But it will take a concerted interdisciplinary research effort to model the total dynamic Earth system.
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With Apologies to Casimir

Daniel Kleppner
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After the Postdoc, Dwindling Prospects

Kevin Aylesworth and Name withheld by request
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Integrating Immigrant Scientists

Alexander E. Kaplan
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Physics Career Advice—and Dissent

Name withheld by request, Caroline L. Herzenberg, Anatoly B. Schmidt, and Leon M. Lederman
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Mitogenetic Radiation: Pathology, or Biology?

Vestel B. Shirley
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Bringing the Citation Index Up to the Past

George F. R. Ellis
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Of Book Reviews and Benchmarks

T. R. Sandin
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Corrections

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Solar Neutrino Update: Three Detectors Tell Three Stories

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Journey into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration

Bruce Murray and Ronald Doel, Reviewer
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Exploring Complexity: An Introduction

Grégoire Nicolis, Ilya Prigogine, and Peter Carruthers, Reviewer
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Magnetic Critical Scattering

Malcolm F. Collins and Stephen M. Shapiro, Reviewer
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Physics of Semiconductor Devices

Michael Shur and Jasprit Singh, Reviewer
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Beyond the Atom: The Philosophical Thought of Wolfgang Pauli

K. V. Laurikainen and Karl Von Meyenn, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Rheology Society Presents Bingham Medal in Santa Fe

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Iachello Wins Wigner Medal for Nuclear Models

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In Brief

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Emilio Segrè

Owen Chamberlain
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Edoardo Amaldi

Ugo Fano, Maurice Goldhaber, and Victor Weisskopf
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David Korff

Albert Altman, Carolyn Duzy, and Robert B. Myers
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Stanley Sekula

James R. Thompson, David K. Christen, H. Richard Kerchner, and Charles E. Klabunde
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Louis Russell Weber

Lawrence N. Hadley
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Will NSF at Last Get the Director Science Deserves in Walter Massey?

Irwin Goodwin


See Also: Erratum

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At New Kind of Summit, Gorbachev Seeks Greater R&D Collaborations

Irwin Goodwin
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Materials Research Society Meets in Boston

Matt Siegel
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NSTA's New Curriculum Integrates Science in Secondary Schools

Jean Kumagai
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Particle Physics Educators Design ‘Periodic Table,’ Software Program

Jean Kumagai
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Teacher's Guide Covers Modern Physics Topics

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AIP and AGU Appoint Congressional Scientist Fellows

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Dixon is Newly Elected President of AAPM

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Bills is Winner of OSA's Newly Created Allen Prize

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Coleman Succeeds Barojas as AIP's Education Fellow

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Allen Retires, Stone to Take Reins at JPL at End of Year

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In Brief

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APS Forms Ties with the Physical Society of the Soviet Union

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APS Provides Travel Grants for Women Speakers

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