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August 1990

Volume 43, Issue 8

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Special Issue: Andrei Sakharov

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

Sidney Drell and Lev Okun
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‘Like a gleam in fhe darkness, we have appeared for an instant from the black nothingness of the ever‐unconscious matter, in order to make good the demands of Reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the Goal we only dimly perceive.’

Precursor of Perestroika

Vladimir Ya. Fainberg
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Sakharov's unshakable principles—but even more his willingness to debate them and to speak out publicly for them—prefigured a restructured society.

Scientist, Thinker, Humanist

Vitalii I. Goldanskii
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Even in 1950, when this very quiet and shy young man first caught the author's attention, a bright future was seen for Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.

Sakharov in His Own Words

Susan Eisenhower and Roald Z. Sagdeev
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‘Autobiographical narratives constitute an important part of mankind's memory,’ Andrei Sakharov says in the preface to his newly published life story, Memoirs. ‘That is one reason why I took up writing this book.’ Another, he continues, is ‘to try to set the record straight.’ Here two good friends review his book.
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What's Wrong with These Reviews?

N. David Mermin
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Stalin, Fuchs and the Soviet Bombs

Abraham Pais
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Soviet Anti‐Semitism in Perestroika's Wake

Michael A. Gruntman
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The Ancestry of the ‘Anyon’

Larry Biedenharn, Elliott Lieb, Barry Simon, and Frank Wilczek
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Giving Women Astronomers Their Due

Herbert Gursky, George S. Mumford, E. Margaret Burbidge, Shirley W. Harrison, and John Lankford
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NASA's Freedom Not to Use Metric Units

Robert J. Schneider
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Radon, Reactors and Relative Risk

Malcolm Parry and Henry Hurwitz, Jr.
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Seconding Solutions for Third World Science

Mohamed H. A. Hassan and Guy F. De Téramond
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Correction

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Hubble's Primary Mirror has the Wrong Shape

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Physicists Puzzle Over Gel Electrophoresis of DNA

Anil Khurana
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Pis'ma O Nauke: Letters about Science

P. L. Kapitsa and Mark Kuchment, Reviewer
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Letters to Mother: The Early Cambridge Period

P. L. Kapitsa, D. Lockwood, and Russell J. Donnelly, Reviewer
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China Builds the Bomb

John Wilson Lewis, Xue Litai, and Lawrence Scheinman, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Millikelvin Technology

David S. Betts and Douglas D. Osheroff, Reviewer
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Clifford Stoll and John W. D. Connolly, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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American Geophysical Union Presents Awards at Spring Meeting

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Skudrzyk, Hoffler Honored at ASA Spring Meeting

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National Academies Name New Members

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In Brief

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Richard C. Lord

Foil A. Miller
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Talk with NSF's Departing Director on Changes, Criticism and Contretemps

Irwin Goodwin
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Khoury Succeeds Wilson as Executive Officer of AAPT

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OSA Board Withdraws Proposal to Change Society's Name

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Marchuk Survives Soviet Academy Election

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Acoustical Society Picks Ungar to Be President‐Elect

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Bishop Receives 1990 AIP Science Writing Award

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In Brief

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Auchincloss Will Be APS Congressional Fellow in 1991

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