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December 1994

Volume 47, Issue 12

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Adaptive Optics in Astronomy

Laird A. Thompson
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The first significant astronomical images are beginning to be produced by adaptive optics systems, which are being developed at many major observatories around the world.

The Summer of 1953: A Watershed for Astrophysics

Owen Gingerich
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In 1953, the Michigan Symposium on Astrophysics proved instrumental in shaping our understanding of stellar evolution and in shaping the future careers of many of the participants. One participant gathers his colleagues’ reminiscences.

Physics: A Personal Perspective

Donald N. Langenberg
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The former president of the American Physical Society reflects on the challenges facing both the society and physics at large in the light of falling budgets, a revamped rationale for supporting science and the advance of the information age.
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Curiosity Drives Better Science Than ‘Strategy’

Roger G. Newton
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Might Neuronal Spikes Permit a Binary Brain?

William Softky
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Polymers’ Progress as Efficient Diffractors

Klaus Meerholz Sandalphon
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North Dakota Firing was Faculty Fueled

Randy S. Fishman, Richard Hammond, Ghazi Q. Hassoun, Douglas A. Kurtze, Craig Rottman, Charles A. Sawicki, and Mahendra K. Sinha
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Do Pensions Siphon Funds from Research?

Zachary H. Levine
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Support for Science: Rationales and Ratios

Todd Duncan, Dwight Duston, and Roland W. Schmitt
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Global Warming: Which Sky's the Limit?

Moti Segal, Rodney Kubesh, Michael K. Kelly, and John G. Kepros
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Was Nazi Know‐how Enough for an A‐Bomb?

Alvin M. Weinberg, Jaroslav Franta, and Boguslaw Frackiewicz
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A Literary Ancestor of Lorenz's Butterfly

Peter Navé
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Iran's Absentee Olympiad Awards

Taraneh Shimi
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The Hard Work of Seeking a Physics Job

Brian G. Morin
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Correction

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Nobelists Brockhouse and Shull Gave Neutron Scattering a Jump Start

Barbara Goss Levt
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Distance to Virgo Kicks Off HST Assault on the Hubble Constant

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Florida Dedicates National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Gloria B. Lubkin
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QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga

Silvan S. Schweber and Sam Treiman, Reviewer
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Encyclopedia of Applied Physics

George L. Trigg, Steven J. Rothman, Reviewer, Roy Benedek, Reviewer, and Simon R. Phillpot, Reviewer
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Modern Physics from α to Z°

J. W. Rohlf and Peter J. Collings, Reviewer
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Glass Science

Robert H. Doremus and George H. Sigel, Jr., Reviewer
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Stochastic Dynamical Systems

Joseph Honerkamp and James D. Meiss, Reviewer
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Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices

Pallab Bhattacharya and Lily Y. Pang, Reviewer
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The Physics of Stars

A. C. Phillips and Bruce W. Carney, Reviewer
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Neutrons, Nuclei and Matter: An Exploration of the Physics of Slow Neutrons

Jim Byrne and Geoffrey L. Greene, Reviewer
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Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods

Asher Peres and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Packard Fellowships Honor Young Faculty

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AAPT Awards Go to Mermin and Reif

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OSA Presents Engineering Awards in Dallas

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William W. Morgan

Donald E. Osterbrock
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James W. Corbett

Walter Gibson, Keith Ratcliff, and George Watkins
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George W. Brady

Harry F. Frisch, Charles P. Scholes, Lawrence C. Snyder, and Boris W. Batterman
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Mastering the Physics of Disaster

Arthur L. Robinson
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Bell Labs Head Sees R&D and Society Changed by Incredible Shrinking Chips

Irwin Goodwin
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ESO Ships Steel to Chile Despite Labor and Land Conflicts

Denis F. Cioffi
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APS Launches Forum for Nonacademic Physicists

DENIS F. Cloffi
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Sproul is 1995 President‐Elect of AVS

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Paliwal Wins AAPM Election

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Fender will Lead Optical Society in 1997

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AIP Corporate Associates Meet in New Jersey

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Thorne Repeats as Winner of AIP Writing Award

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