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April 1992

Volume 45, Issue 4

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Special Issue: John Bardeen

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Recollections From The Early Years of Solid‐State Physics

Conyers Herring
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Bardeen's devotion to solid‐state physics began in the mid‐1930s, when he was a graduate student and the field was young. By 1951 he had helped to discover the transistor and had set the stage for his later studies of superconductivity.

John Bardeen and the Point‐Contact Transistor

Nick Holonyak, Jr.
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It is not widely appreciated that Bardeen first recognized minority‐carrier injection, which is the basis for the original bipolar transistor and the beginning of modern electronics.

John Bardeen and the Theory of Superconductivity

J. Robert Schrieffer
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Bardeen's knowledge of the experimental data hod bounded the theory of superconductivity quite tightly before B, C ond S developed their theory.

Consultant to Industry, Adviser to Government

George Poke
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John Bardeen provided valuable advice to Xerox Corporation and other firms, and served conscientiously on Eisenhower's and Kennedy's science advisory committees and on Reagan's White House Science Council.

An Extraordinary Man: Reflections on John Bardeen

David Pines
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Occupying the office next door for 32 years provided a unique perspective on Bardeen. His personal qualities were as admirable as his scientific style.
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What's Wrong in Computopia?

N. David Mermin
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John Bardeen's High‐Tc Anticipations

Charles Gallo
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Ferment Over Beer Bubbles

T. G. M. Van De Ven, S. S. Dukhin, Gregory T. Linteris, T. Michael Sanders, Jerry W. Moulder, Neil E. Shafer, and Richard N. Zare
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More Educational Outrach Programs

Thomas D. Rossing, Gordon Berry, John Greene, Sam Bowen, Martha S. Hanner, Brian B. Schwartz, and James Wynne
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Physicists’ Intervention in Education

Harold Pratt, Frank Pavia, and John U. Trefny
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SSC: Accelerator of Public Knowledge?

Thomas Gadsden, Jr. and Sherrie Kivlighn
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Past Science Teaching: A Textbook Case

E. O. LaCasce
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Are Megaprojects Middle‐Class Welfare?

J. C. Phillips
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Nature's Chirality: Why Not Evenhanded?

Dilip K. Kondepudi, Vladik A. Avetisov, Vitalii I. Goldanskii, and Vladimir V. Kuz'min
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Getting Religion and Science to Talk

Art Hobson and George L. Murphy
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Electron‐Photon Analogy Analyzed

H. Sami Sözüer, Ramarao Inguva, Joseph W. Haus, and Sajeev John
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Corrections

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Experiments Remove Resistance to the Notion of Persistent Currents

Barbara Goss Levi
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CEBAF Injector Passes All Tests

Bertram Schwarzschild
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CLEO‐QELS Convention to Be Held in Anaheim

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Quantized Vortices in Helium II

Russell J. Donnelly and Robert Hallock, Reviewer
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Quantum Mechanics on the Macintosh

Sigmund Brandt, Hans Dieter Dahmen, and Lawrence A. Coleman, Reviewer
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Strings, Conformal Fields and Topology: An Introduction

Michio Kaku and Martin Roček, Reviewer
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Quantum Semiconductor Structures

Claude Weisbuch, Borge Vinter, and Kevin F. Brennan, Reviewer
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Fiber Optic Sensors

Eric Udd and Lawrence G. Rubin, Reviewer
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Science American Style

Nathan Reingold and James Fleming, Reviewer
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Knots and Physics

Louis Kauffman and Aiyalam P. Balachandran, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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APS Awards Highligh Work in Physics Subfields

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Physics Teachers Honor Research and Service

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Howard C. Berg
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William R. Krigbaum

Marcus E. Hobbs and Peter Smith
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John H. Elliott

William R. Schowalter and C. Robert Shertzer
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Lewis Salter

Robert L. Henry and Dennis C. Henry
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With Truly Ditched and Goldin on Pad, NASA Reaches a Big Moment of Truth

Irwin Goodwin
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Two Physics Projects Target Teacher Preparation

Jean Kumagai
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Three Astronomy Institutes Form European Lab Association

William Sweet
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AIP to Give Free Journals to CIS Scientists

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Rigden to Work on Science Standards, Porter Fills in

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Neugebauer Will be the Next AGU President‐Elect

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Dylla is 1992 President‐Elect of Vacuum Society

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1992 President‐Elect of AAPM is Morin

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AAS Elects New Vice President and Other Officers

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SPS Awards Support Education and Research Projects

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In Brief

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