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November 1993

Volume 46, Issue 11

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Atom Motion on Surfaces

Max G. Lagally
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When atoms deposited on a surface move easily, they find the optimum crystal sites and form high‐quality films, a process now visible in the scanning tunneling microscope.

Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory

Silvan S. Schweber
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We are in the midst of a restructuring of the physical sciences. Internally, they are stratifying into independent levels with stable basic principles; externally budgets are shrinking and political objectives are changing.

The XXIV Physics Olympiad Examinations

Anthony P. French
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Creating a set of challenging but fair problems for students from over 40 countries who have learned physics in a wide variety of educational systems poses its own challenges.
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Is a ‘Final Theory’ Too Grim a Dream?

Harry J. Lipkin and Steven Weinberg
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Reforming Physics and Physicists for Lean Times

Alvin Saperstein, Marc Ross, Ernest Bauer, Michael J. Shea, and Robert J. Yaes
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Davisson‐Germer: Not Just Skin Deep

Anthony P. French
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Did Privilege Blunt Soviet Scientists' Politics?

Alexander I. Akhiezer, Shulim Kogan, Eugene M. Chudnovsky, and Alex Vilenkin
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Biographer Seeks Tales of Bohm's Effect

F. David Peat
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STM Rounds up Electron Waves at the QM Corral

Graham P. Collins
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IUPAC∕IUPAP Committee Mediates Custody Battle Over Heavy Elements

Barbara Goss Levi
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Experiments Find Relatively Long‐Lived Isotope of Element 106

Barbara G. Levi
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MRS Turns 20 at the Fall Meeting in Boston

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Principles of Physical Cosmology and an Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology

P. J. E. Peebles, J. N. Islam, and Joseph Silk, Reviewer
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Liquid Crystalline Polymers

A. M. Donald, A. H. Windle, and Helmut R. Brand, Reviewer
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Physics of the Earth

Frank Stacey and Thorne Lay, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Clinton Presents National Medals of Science and Technology

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O'leary Gives Fermi Awards

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Three Share Triennial London Award

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ICTP Presents Dirac Medals

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Macarthur Winners Named

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Solomon J. Buchsbaum

William F. Brinkman and D. Allan Bromley
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Jan H. Oort

Lodewijk Woltjer
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Robert E. Marshak

Harry Lustig, Susumu Okubo, and E. C. George Sudarshan
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Dawon Kahng

Joseph A. Giordmaine
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Congress Cancels SSC and Allocates High Budgets for Technology in 1994

Irwin Goodwin
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Hubble Space Telescope Makers Pay for Costly Mirror Mistake

Irwin Goodwin
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NSF Crosses Potomac and Gets New Digs

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Optical Society Elects Moore Vice President

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AVS Releases JVSTA and B on CD‐ROM

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New AAS Bylaw Addresses Discrimination

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In Brief

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