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November 1990

Volume 43, Issue 11

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Select this Article		Special Issue: Communicating Physics to the Public Barbara Goss Levi and Jeffrey Schmidt


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Select this Article		Science on the Air: NSF's Role George Tressel


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Select this Article		Getting Physics into the Paper Charles Petit


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Select this Article		Selling Science Dorothy Nelkin


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	+ -	Show Topic When scientists attempt to use the press to promote their work, and science reporters rely more on imagery than on substance, the public winds up with an idealized and alienating view of the scientific enterprise.

Select this Article		Science Museums as Environments for Learning Robert J. Semper


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Select this Article		Physics Literacy Jeffrey Schmidt


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	+ -	Show Topic What would it mean for the public to be scientifically literate? We asked seven observers with a variety of backgrounds, affiliations and points of view.

REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Whats Wrong with those Epochs? N. David Mermin


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Condensed Matter Theory's Fragile Funding Sebastian Doniach and Robert Hart


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Select this Article		Mirror Aberration Communication François Roddier


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Select this Article		Florida Un‐Sitely for Magnet Lab Gottfried Landwehr


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Select this Article		Shifting Credit for Seeing Lamb Shift Harold E. Rorschach, Ian M. Duck, George T. Trammell, and James P. Hannon


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Select this Article		Astronomy's ‘Crisis’ Through Another Lens Allan Walstad and Donald E. Osterbrock


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Select this Article		Controversy re Reversible Computers Eginhart Biedermann and Rolf Landauer


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Select this Article		Wigner Distribution Malfunction John Philpott, Malvin C. Teich, and Bahaa E. A. Saleh


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Select this Article		Angular Momentum Quantization Qualm K. Schönhammer


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Select this Article		‘Doc’ Draper Praised; A‐Bomb Reappraised Ralph H. Jacobson, Arthur C. Clarke, Sidney Lees, Ralph D. Bennett, Brian Reid, and Barton J. Bernstein


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Select this Article		Was Uhlenbeck History ‘Cannibalized’? Sidney Van Den Bergh and Abraham Pais


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Select this Article		APS Input Needed on Nuclear Output Ivan Ladany and Eugen Merzbacher


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Select this Article		Correction


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Are Fractures Fractal or Quakes Chaotic? Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Hubble Investigation Board Finds Out What Went Wrong Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Hubble Telescope Finds Surprisingly Dense Galactic Center Bertram Schwarzschild

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BOOKS

Select this Article		Lawrence and his Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Volume 1 J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel, and W. Peter Trower, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Physics of High‐T_c Superconductors J. C. Phillips and K. Alex Müller, Reviewer


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Select this Article		From Paradox to Reality: Our Basic Concepts of the Physical World Fritz Rohrlich and James T. Cushing, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Rochester Roundabout: The Story of High Energy Physics John Polkinghorne and J. D. Jackson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Introductory Nuclear Physics Samuel S. M. Wong and Mohan S. Kalelkar, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		New Products


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAPT Phillips Award Goes to Bartlett; McDermott to Give Millikan Lecture


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Select this Article		Peter Almond Receives Coolidge Award, Highest Honor of AAPM


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Select this Article		Macarthur Fellowships Go to Margaret Geller and Mimi Koehl Matthew Siegel


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Stewart E. Miller Charles A. Burrus, Herwig Kogelnik, and Tingye Li


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Select this Article FREE		Denis Keefe Edward J. Lofgren


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Select this Article FREE		Enrique Gaviola Omar Bernaola, Veronica Grunfeld, and L. M. Falicov


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Select this Article FREE		Karl George Emeléus Alan Garscadden


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Retired in Academe, Harold Hanson Looks Back on Years in House Panel Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Ins & Outs: Dreams of Fields Take Him to MCC; Judd Leaves SDI; OSTP and NSF Arrivals Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Court to Decide Fate of Mt. Graham Observatory this Winter or Spring William Sweet


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Select this Article		IUPAP Recognizes Biological Physics, Elects Yamaguchi William Sweet


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Select this Article		Spencer Takes Reins at Sematech with Intention of Winning Race Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		JESSI Wounded but not Mortally in Retreat of Philips from SRAMs William Sweet


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NEWS FROM APS

Select this Article		Academic Survey Finds Limited Job Openings Except in Some Subfields


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CALENDAR

Select this Article		Calendar


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