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January 1993

Volume 46, Issue 1

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Artificial Atoms

Marc A. Kastner
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The charge and energy of a sufficiently small particle of metal or semiconductor are quantized just like those of an atom. The current through such a quantum dot or one‐electron transistor reveals atom‐like features in a spectacular way.

Solid‐State Physics at Microkelvin Temperatures: Is Anything Left to Learn?

Frank Pobell
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Research at these temperatures on superconductors, spin glasses, structural glasses and nuclear magnets is really only in its infancy.

The Birth of the Nuclear Age

Albert Wattenberg
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When Ernest Rutherford dismissed nuclear energy as ‘moonshine’ in 1933, Leo Szilard took it as a personal challenge. Nine years later, under a Chicago grandstand, Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first self‐sustaining uranium pile.
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Two Lectures on the Wave‐Particle Duality

N. David Mermin
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Facing Painful Truths of Science in Today's Market

John S. Blakemore, James L. Stevens, and D. De Fontaine
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Sharper Images of Mri's Origins

Jerome R. Singer, Herman Y. Carr, Sidney Millman, and Felix W. Wehrli
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A Place to Publish Unorthodox Thought

William M. Honig, Peter J. Farago, and Clarence A. Gall
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Buckyballs of Yore?

William W. Holt
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Correction

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Nobel Physics Prize Goes to Charpak for Inventing Particle Detectors

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Marcus Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Electron Transfer Theory

Barbara Goss Levi
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Science Literacy at the College Level

F. Curtis Michel
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Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century

John R. Huizenga and David Williams, Reviewer
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Albert Einstein, Mileva Marié: The Love Letters

Jürgen Renn, Robert Schulmann, and Abraham Pais, Reviewer
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Route 128: Lessons from Boston's High‐Tech Community

Susan Rosegrant, David Lampe, and John Shier, Reviewer
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Basics of Interferometry

P. Hariharan and Katherine Creath, Reviewer
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Active Control of Sound

P. A. Nelson, S. J. Elliott, and John E. Ffowcs Williams, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Physics Teachers Honor Weinreich and Fuller

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Daubechies and Schneider Among 1992 MacArthur Fellows

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In Brief

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Gerald Feinberg

T. D. Lee and Joseph Sucher
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Gian‐Carlo Wick

Maurice Jacob
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Giulio Ascoli

Lee Holloway and Robert Sard
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Everett W. Thatcher

Waldo Lyon
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Conversation with Allan Bromley: Reflections On Exiting Center Stage

Irwin Goodwin
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Soros Fund Launches ‘Noah's Ark’ with $100 Million for Science in FSU

Irwin Goodwin
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Europe Reorients Space Science Program with Russia in Mind

William Sweet
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APS Creates Rahman Prize

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Patel is Elected Vice President of APS for 1993

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Adman is Elected ACA Vice President

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