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September 1991

Volume 44, Issue 9

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Select this Article		Special Issue: Pre‐College Education Clifford Swartz


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Select this Article		The Physicists Intervene Clifford Swartz


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	+ -	Show Topic For over 150 years American physicists have been making forays into elementary and high school science teaching. Their novel approaches have usually worked—but the results have always been short‐lived.

Select this Article		Testing Physics Achievement: Trends Over Time and Place Will Pfeiffenberger, Ann Marie Zolandz, and Lee Jones


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Select this Article		The Materials of Physics Instruction Gerhard L. Salinger


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Select this Article		Pre‐College Physics Education Programs from the Research Community Brian B. Schwartz and James J. Wynne


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Select this Article		Learning and Instruction in Pre‐College Physical Science Jose P. Mestre


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Why Are We Silent about Science? C. J. Salgado


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Select this Article		Why is a Physics PhD Like a Juggler? James Scott and Kevin Aylesworth


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Select this Article		Scanning Tunnel Vision J. A. Eades


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Select this Article		Central Bureaucracy Stifles Good Research John J. Gilman


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Select this Article		Solitary Wave Preoccupations John Miles and James A. Krumhansl


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Select this Article		Socratic Pedagogy in Introductory Physics Richard R. Hake


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Cold Neutron Research Facility Begins Operating at NIST Ellen J. Zeman


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OPINION

Select this Article		Introductory Physics for Teachers Kenneth G. Wilson


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology Andrei Linde and Edward Kolb, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Technological Risk H. W. Lewis and John L. McLucas, Reviewer


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Select this Article		They're Not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier Sheila Tobias and Mary H. Fehrs, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Fifth Branch: Science Advisors as Policymakers Sheila Jasanoff and Joel R. Primack, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Quantum Profiles Jeremy Bernstein and N. David Mermin, Reviewer


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Select this Article		SETI Pioneers: Scientists Talk about Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence David W. Swift and George Lake, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Acoustical Society Presents Gold Medal to Schroeder


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Select this Article		Macarthur Fellowships Given for Physics‐Related Work


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Select this Article		National Academies Name New Members for 1991


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Arthur Rich David W. Gidley


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Select this Article FREE		Nathan Sugarman Anthony Turkevich


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Select this Article FREE		William P. Slichter H. Douglas Keith and Dean C. Douglass


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Select this Article FREE		Hiroshi Yoshinaga Robert A. Oetjen


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Select this Article FREE		John W. DeWire Boyce D. McDaniel and Albert Silverman


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Happer Walks into the Caldron of DOE's Top Research Position Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		NSF Breathes Longer Life into MIT's Magnet Lab—To 1995 Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Chinese Team Takes Five Gold Medals in XXII Physics Olympiad Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		AIP, APS and AGU Name 1991–92 Congressional Fellows


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Select this Article		Ionson Becomes Head of Research at Polaroid Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		Baldwin Leaves Texas, Returns to Livermore


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Select this Article		Medwin Will Lead Acoustical Society in 1992


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Select this Article		Poate is New Editor of Applied Physics Reviews


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Select this Article		In Brief


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NEWS FROM APS

Select this Article		Industrial Internships Provide Physics Students with Valuable Experience


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CALENDAR

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