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October 1993

Volume 46, Issue 10

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Special Issue: Physical Review Centenary—From Basic Research to High Technology

Robert K. Adair and Ernest M. Henley
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A century of fundamental physics research has appeared in the Physical Review. Such research is the seed corn of the technological harvest that sustains modern society.

Physical Review Records the Birth of the Laser Era

Nicolaas Bloembergen
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The first paper reporting an operating laser was rejected by Physical Review Letters in 1960. Now lasers are a huge and growing industry, but the pioneers' chief motivation was the physics.

Fiber Optics

Alastair M. Glass
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Fundamental research in glass science, optics and quantum mechanics has matured into a technology that is now driving a communications revolution.

Early Magnetic Resonance Experiments: Roots and Offshoots

Norman F. Ramsey
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Branches of this fruitful tree led to masers, radiofrequency spectroscopy, the frequency standard and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Bulk Matter

George E. Pake
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Basic research on assemblies of nuclear gyromagnetic moments led to powerful techniques for studying molecular structure and solid lattices—and to a modern medical diagnostic tool.

Superconductivity: From Physics to Technology

Theodore H. Geballe
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It took half a century to understand Kamerlingh Onnes's discovery, and another quarter‐century to make it useful. Presumably we won't have to wait that long to make practical use of the new high‐temperature superconductors.

A Semicentury of Semiconductors

Alan B. Fowler
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Researchers and technologists have grappled with semiconductors for more than 50 years, and their labors have had a revolutionary impact on science and society.

Exploring Mesoscopia: The Bold New World of Nanostructures

Richard W. Siegel
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The revolutionary creation of new materials with controlled properties via nanostructuring is making possible a wide variety of technological advances.

Medical Cyclotrons

Henry G. Blosser
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In 1932 Ernest Lawrence and Stanley Livingston envisaged a device for basic research on the atomic nucleus; today modern versions of their device provide healing radiations at many medical centers.
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Knowledge Per Se is Still Reason to Fund Research

Timothy P. Grayson
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Why Do Nobels Come Less and Less to US?

Walter A. Harrison
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German at Farm Hall Knew Little of A‐Bombs

Irving Klotz
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Tips for Sympathetic Symposium Speakers

Jim Carrubba, Michael W. Friedlander, Douglas O'Neal, J. F. Allen, R. A. Esterlund, and N. David Mermin
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Technology Transfer Touted

John D. Canaday
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Computerizing March Meeting Program

John Bechhoefer
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Junior Physics Review Recommended

Donald E. Rehfuss
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Surplused Research Professor's Shared Saga

Paul Roman
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First of the Twin 10‐Meter Keck Telescopes in Hawaii Starts Doing Astronomy

Bertram Schwarzschild
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AVS to Celebrate its 40th Year at Orlando Meeting

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The Atomic Energy Commission Under Nixon: Adjusting to Troubled Times

Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb, and Richard Garwin, Reviewer
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John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrance, and Much More

Norman Macrae and Herbert F. York, Reviewer
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The Physics of Waves

Howard Georgi and Anthony P. French, Reviewer
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Liquid Crystals

S. Chandrasekhar and Charles Rosenblatt, Reviewer
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Getting to Know Semiconductors

M. E. Levinshtein, G. S. Simin, and John Worlock, Reviewer
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Charge Exchange and the Theory of Ion–Atom Collisions

B. H. Bransden, M. R. C. McDowell, and Edmund J. Mansky, Reviewer
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Materials Fundamentals of Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Jeffrey Y. Tsao and James P. Harbison, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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We Hear That

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Moti Lal Rustgi

Michael Fuda and Bruce McCombe
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Mark Rasolt

Ted Kaplan and Mark Mostoller
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David Lichtman

Richmond B. McQuistan
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A Time of Anxiety for Research as Senate Panel Micromanages NSF

Irwin Goodwin
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Directives for Radically Redirecting NSF

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Senate Rescues SSC, But Final Act Awaits Conference

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Ins & Outs: NASA Gets New Chief Scientist; DOE Loses a Nuclear Veteran

Irwin Goodwin
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Aid for FSU Science Quicker to Come From Societies Than Governments

William Sweet
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AIP's Efforts to Aid FSU Science

Jean Kumagai
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Preparing to Step Down, AIP's Ford Considers Accomplishments

Jean Kumagai
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In Brief

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