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June 1994

Volume 47, Issue 6

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Blue‐Green Diode Lasers

Gertrude F. Neumark, Robert M. Park, and James M. Depuydt
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The road to the realization of short‐wavelength, wide‐bandgap, II‐VI semiconductor diode lasers was fraught with scientific challenges.

Recollections of Lev Davidovich Landau

Alexander I. Akhiezer
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Landau's students and collaborators adored the great theorist. But his irreverence and nasty temper made enough powerful enemies to land him in the Gulag for a year.

Yakov Il'ich Frenkel

Rudolf Peierls
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Self‐taught in theoretical physics as a high school student in Tsarist Russia, he was a pioneer of the study of physics in the Soviet Union, making significant contributions to fields as varied as electrodynamics, condensed matter physics and geophysics.
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What's Wrong with this Temptation?

N. David Mermin
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Searching for Science Criticism's Sources

Normand Mousseau, Howard K. Birnbaum, Walter L. Faust, Ivan Tolstoy, Vladimir Chaloupka, L. L. Gadeken, John Knox, T. M. Georges, D. O. Miles, and Daniel Kleppner
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Historical Perspective on New PhDs' Low Pay

Reuben E. Alley and Peter Duncan
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Fritz Houtermans in Bad Times and Good

V. Ya. Frenkel and Bruce R. Doe
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Correction

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Fermilab Tevatron Collider Group Goes Over the Top—Cautiously

Ray Ladbury
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Astronomers are Poised for the ‘Crash of 1994’: Boom Or Bust?

Stephen G. Benka
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Experiment Reveals a New Type of Electron System

Barbara Goss Levi
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Crystallographers to Sample Atlanta's Hospitality

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The Physics of Golf

Theodore P. Jorgensen and Robert K. Adair, Reviewer
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Surface Emitting Semiconductor Lasers and Arrays

Gary A. Evans, Jacob M. Hammer, and A. F. J. Levi, Reviewer
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The Broken Dice and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance

Ivar Ekeland and Robert March, Reviewer
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Civilizing Mission. Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830–1940

Lewis Pyenson and Harry W. Paul, Reviewer
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AIP Handbook of Modern Sensors

Jacob Fraden and Lawrence G. Rubin, Reviewer
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The Physics of Three‐Dimensional Radiation Therapy, Conformal Radiation Therapy, Radiosurgery and Treatment Planning

Steve Webb and William Powers, Reviewer
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Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas

Norbert Wiener and Philip G. Drazin, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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OSA Prize Winners Reflect a Wide Range of Achievements

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Nas Selects New Members

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In Brief

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G.P.S. Occhialini

Valentine L. Telegdi
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Robert DeWitt Huntoon

Jacob Rabinow
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Carl Oberman

John Krommes, Ernest Valeo, and Norman Rostoker
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Michael A. Schluter

Gene A. Baraff, Horst L. Stormer, and Marvin L. Cohen
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Gabriel Bourgois

Eric Gerard, William Coles, and Barney Rickett
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The Physics of High Finance

Arthur L. Robinson
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Physicists Refute Charges that Icons Helped Soviets Build Nuclear Bomb

Irwin Goodwin
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New Faces Appear at URA and NSF; Old Order Changes at Science Board

Irwin Goodwin
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AIP Director Brodsky Promises Evolution, Not Revolution

Denis F. Cioffi
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Two Physics Journals to Go Online in 1995

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AIP Reports on US High School Physics Teachers

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Societies Advise Departments on Advising and Hiring

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US Physicists Work with New UNESCO Council

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Eaton Leads US Geological Survey

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Top Quark Article Wins AIP Science Writing Prize

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‘Hands‐On’ Science Books Receive AIP Prize

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