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August 1991

Volume 44, Issue 8

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Neutrino and Dark‐Matter Detection at Low Temperature

Leo Stodolsky
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The use of low‐temperature techniques to see tiny energies in massive detectors may be opening a ‘low energy’ frontier of particle physics.

Health Effects of Low‐Level Ionizing Radiation

Arthur C. Upton
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BEIR V—the National Research Council's fifth committee on the biological effects of ionizing radiation—found the population's risk of injury to be somewhat larger than estimated previously.

An Evolving Physical System: The State of the American Physical Society

Eugen Merzbacher
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As APS approaches the end of its first century, its leadership faces some difficult choices about what new tasks the society should take on and how it should draw its boundaries.
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Quantum Chaos and the Bow‐Stern Enigma

Daniel Kleppner
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Accessing Atoms via Synchrotron Radiation

Bernd Crasemann
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Scientific Authorship: What's in a Name?

Eugen Tarnow
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Physics Reinstated at Portland State

William W. Paudler
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Magnet Lab: A Near Miss for New Mexico?

J. Derald Morgan
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A Short Exposure to ‘Doc’ Edgerton

Sherri Chasin Calvo
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Hamamatsu Photonics Lab: Given to Gotham

R. R. Alfano
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‘Distinguished’ Universities Redefined

James D. Patterson
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Fastie Spectrometer Recollections

Thomas M. Donahue, John A. Sanderson, and William G. Fastie
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Aid to Minorities and Women is Physics Aid

Emilia P. Belserene
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A Thornton on EPSCOR's Side

John B. Talmadge
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Why Theory Suffers from Shortfalls

Robert J. Yaes
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How to Jettison Junk Mail

Leonard X. Finegold
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Parity Poetry

Erich Harth
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Brookhaven Starts Building the Relativistic Heavy‐Ion Collider

Bertram Schwarzschild
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International Team Examines Health in Zones Contaminated by Chernobyl

Barbara Goss Levi
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1989 Lectures in Complex Systems

Erica Jen and Philip Holmes, Reviewer
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The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the 90s

Bernard L. Cohen and John F. Ahearne, Reviewer
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The Superfluid Phases of Helium 3

Dieter Vollhardt, Peter Wölfle, and Robert B. Hallock, Reviewer
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Free‐Electron Lasers

Charles A. Brau and Henry P. Freund, Reviewer
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Moments in the Life of a Scientist

Bruno Rossi and William L. Kraushaar, Reviewer
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Pulsar Astronomy

A. G. Lyne, F. Graham‐Smith, and Thomas Gold, Reviewer
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Quantics: Rudiments of Quantum Physics

Jean‐Marc Lévy‐Leblond, Francoise Balibar, S. Twareque Ali, and Donald Scarl, Reviewer
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End of and Era: Superpowers Sign START, Limiting Nuclear ICBMs

Irwin Goodwin
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Making News by Calling it Quits, Bucy Leaves a Message for the SSC

Irwin Goodwin
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AIP Survey Finds Recession‐Related Increase in Graduate Enrollments

William Sweet
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Mayo Succeeds Ross as President of AT&T Bell Labs

William Sweet
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European Optical Society is Established

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Smith Receives 1991 Gemant Award from AIP

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Optical Society Names Education and Technical Officers

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In Brief

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