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August 1994

Volume 47, Issue 8

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Of Love, Physics and Other Passions: The Letters of Albert and Mileva

Gerald Holton
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In the letters between the young Einstein and his classmate Mileva Marić, prophetic musings on the electrodynamics of moving bodies vie with urgent professions of love.

Einstein and the Press

Abraham Pais
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The world media turned a great physicist into a mythical figure and then quoted him widely as if he were an expert on every subject.

The Origin of the Earth

Thomas J. Ahrens
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Data from recent exploration of the solar system and telescopic observations of accretion discs around other stars make a model of Earth's origin more quantitative.
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Two Questions Physics Can No Longer Avoid

Martin C. Gutzwiller
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Novelty and Sociology: Responses to Schweber

Stanley M. Flatté and Paul Roman
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Breeding Business Out of the Nat'l Labs

Nicholas J. Digiacomo
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Arms (One vs Two) and the Physicist

Phil Fraundorf
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Accelerators for Neutron Therapy

Lawrence Cranberg
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Repaired Hubble Sees Strong Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole in M87

Graham P. Collins
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New Hubble Camera Finds Many Protoplanetary Disks in Orion Nebula

Bertram Schwarzschild
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A Comet Makes a Splash

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Selected Works Of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Vol. II: Particles, Nuclei and the Universe

J. P. Ostriker, G. I. Barenblatt, R. A. Sunyaev, and Kip S. Thorne, Reviewer
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Science and Anti‐Science

Gerald Holton and Daniel Kleppner, Reviewer
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Guardians of Science

Hans‐Dieter Daniel and Benjamin Bederson, Reviewer
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Experimental Low Temperature Physics

Anthony Kent and Robert B. Hallock, Reviewer
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A First Course in Computational Physics

Paul L. Devries and Karlheinz Langanke, Reviewer
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Classical Electromagnetic Theory

Jack Vanderlinde and Richard Noer, Reviewer
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Photodissociation Dynamics

Reinhard Schinke and Donald G. Truhlar, Reviewer
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Interferogram Analysis: Digital Fringe Pattern Measurement Techniques

David W. Robinson, Graeme T. Reid, and Peter De Groot, Reviewer
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Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces

Winfried Mönch and N. John Dinardo, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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AGU Medals Recognize Outstanding Work in Geophysics

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David Joseph Bohm

Sheldon Goldstein
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Lawrence Randolph Hafstad

Philip H. Abelson and Nils L. Muench
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Herbert B. Callen

Elias Burstein, Michael Cohen, A. Brooks Harris, and Tom C. Lubensky
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Robert V. Langmuir

Charles A. Barnes and Roy W. Gould
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Joseph Valasek

Alfred O. C. Nier and Allen M. Goldman
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Conversation with Jack Gibbons on Coordinating Science Policy

Irwin Goodwin
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Clinton and his New Science Council

Irwin Goodwin
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Survey and Site Visits Evaluate ‘Climate’ For Women in Physics

Jean Kumagai
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Center for History of Physics Receives $600 000

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AGU Moves into New Building in Washington

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Geophysical Societies Agree to Cooperate

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New AAPT Scholarship for Future Teachers

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In Brief

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