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February 1991

Volume 44, Issue 2

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Roundtable: New Challenges for the National Labs

Lew Allen, Jr., Solomon J. Buchsbaum, John H. Gibbons, Siegfried S. Hecker, Edward A. Knapp, Gerold Yonas, Gloria B. Lubkin, Irwin Goodwin, and Barbara G. Levi
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America's government laboratories are a reservoir of scientific and technological capabilities. They contribute to national defense, scientific discoveries, space exploration, better agriculture and improved health care. Over the past decade. Congress has directed the labs to pass along their research ideas and technological knowhow to commercial companies in an effort to enhance the country's competitiveness in global markets. In an attempt to understand how the national labs can best achieve their new mission while retaining their old strengths, PHYSICS TODAY editors brought together six prominent members of the nation's R&D enterprise to discuss the issues.

Their Most Productive Years: Young Physics Faculty in 1990

Roman Czujko, Daniel Kleppner, and Stuart A. Rice
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An APS survey reveals that many of our brightest young physicists are struggling in a research climate that they regard as dismal. A similar survey in 1977 found opposite results.
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Mystery, Not History, Drives Particle Physics

Howard Georgi, Drasko Jovanovic, and N. David Mermin
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Reflections on Broken Symmetry

Rudolf Peierls, Thomas A. Kaplan, and Philip W. Anderson
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Teaching Physics to Poets, and Vice Versa

Kenneth Perry, Craig R. Haas, and David H. Frisch
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Onsager's Outside‐in Intuition

Gordon Freeman, Graham R. Fleming, and Peter G. Wolynes
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Emigré Scientist Aid: Threat to Civil Rights?

Michele Kaufman and Alexander E. Kaplan
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Affirmative Action for American Physicists

Robert Lynch
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Mileva Marić's Relativistic Role

Evan Harris Walker
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Retired Status in the APS

Lawrence Cranberg and W. W. Havens, Jr.
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Should Physicists Lay Down ‘Law’?

James C. Lau, Robert E. Levin, and Art Hobson
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Correction

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The Hunt for Anyons in Oxide Superconductors is Inconclusive

Barbara Goss Levi
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Ring Around 1987 Supernova Provides a New Yardstick

Bertram Schwarzschild
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On Physics in the Two‐Year College

Sollie A. Warkins
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APS Meets in Cincinnati

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Atomic Rivals: A Candid Memoir of Rivalries Among the Allies Over the Bomb

Bertrand Goldschmidt and John Lewis, Reviewer
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Schrödinger: Life and Thought

Walter Moore and Peter G. O. Freund, Reviewer
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Superconductor Electronics: Fundamentals and Microwave Applications; Superconducting Quantum Electronics; Superconducting Electronics

J. H. Hinken, V. Kose, Harold Weinstock, Martin Nisenoff, and Robert L. Fagaly, Reviewer
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A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative

Sanford Lakoff, Herbert F. York, and Milo Nordyke, Reviewer
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Principles of Magnetic Resonance

C. P. Slichter and Robert G. Griffin, Reviewer
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Einstein and the History of General Relativity

D. Howard, J. Stachel, and Wolfgang Drechsler, Reviewer
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Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics

Chul Park and Wayland Griffith, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Different Stars

Tom Johnson
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William M. Fairbank

Blas Cabrera, C. W. F. Everitt, and Bascom S. Deaver, Jr.
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Thomas H. Johnson

Sidney Drell, Will Happeer, Robert Hunter, Jr., and Richard Osgood
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Miguel Awschalom

Francis Cole, Arlene Lennox, Lionel Cohen, Ivan Rosenberg, Franca Kuchnir, and Paul DeLuca
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Funding Gloom: Mood of Foreboding Pervades Forum at Science Academy

Irwin Goodwin
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Congress Heaps Funds on EPSCOR for Research in ‘Have‐Not’ States

Audrey T. Leath
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Democrats Pick George Brown to Head House Science Committee

Irwin Goodwin
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Several Japanese Corporations Establish New Labs in United States

Jean Kumagai
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Japanese Establishing European Beachhead in UK

William Sweet
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Minnesota Lures Top Theorists from Leading Soviet Institutes

William Sweet
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Workshops Focus on Drawing Researchers into Undergrad Physics

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Special Election

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Undergrads Sought for Summer Research

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