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September 1994

Volume 47, Issue 9

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Sonoluminescence

Lawrence A. Crum
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A simple mechanical system can produce light from sound. In the process energy densities can increase by a factor of 1012, and 50‐picosecond light pulses are synchronized to a few parts in 1011.

New Ways of Looking at US Science and Technology

George E. Brown, Jr
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For 50 years Federal science policy was rooted in cold war perceptions of a world in which the US had one military rival and virtually no scientific and technological equals. The nation must redirect science and technology to objectives that sustain social progress and economic growth while preserving our planetary habitat.

Of Love, Physics and Other Passions: The Letters of Albert and Mileva (Part 2)

Gerald Holton
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With a child on the way, Albert Einstein swore he would take the most menial job, he and Mileva Marić would marry and they would be a cozy couple, happily immersed together in the study of science.That's not how it turned out.
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Quark Pronunciation: Rhymes and Reasons

Carsten M. Haaland, Kalmar‐R. Stevenson, Margaret M. Bishop, Iggy McGovern, Malcolm Harvey, Eugen Merzbacher, Daniel Kleppner, and N. David Mermin
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Photovoltaics' Promise Still Less Than Sunny?

Aden B. Meinel, Marjorie P. Meinel, John J. Gilman, Peter Reppert, and Jack L. Stone
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A Tale of Two Mesons

Laurie M. Brown
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APS Bosnia Statement Betrays Inconsistency

William C. Meecham
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Veil of Secrecy is Lifted from Parts of Livermore's Laser Fusion Program

Barbara Goss Levi
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Magneto‐Optic Traps are Set for Radioactive Atoms

Ray Ladbury
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AVS to Hold Its 41st Symposium a Mile High

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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

Murray Gell‐Mann and David Mermin, Reviewer
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The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory

David Bohm, Basil J. Hiley, and Sheldon Goldstein, Reviewer
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Wrinkles in Time and Through a Universe Darkly

George Smoot, Keay Davidson, Marcia Bartusiak, and Joel R. Primack, Reviewer
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Dynamics of the Standard Model

John F. Donoghue, Eugene Golowich, Barry R. Holstein, and Steven Gottlieb, Reviewer
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Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–45

Lillian Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade, Catherine Westfall, and Peter Neushul, Reviewer
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Lasers and Optical Fibers in Medicine

Abraham Katzir and Irving Itzkan, Reviewer
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Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand

Eduard A. Tropp, Viktor Ya. Frenkel, Artur D. Chernin, and Lewis Pyenson, Reviewer
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Representations and Characters of Groups

Gordon James, Martin Liebeck, and William G. Harter, Reviewer
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Introduction to Conformal Invariance and Its Applications to Critical Phenomena

Philippe Christe, Malte Henkel, and John Cardy, Reviewer
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Introduction to the Theory of Laser–Atom Interactions

Marvin H. Mittleman and Bruce W. Shore, Reviewer
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New Books

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Gelfand, Wisdom Among 1994 MacArthur

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Lauterbur Garners 1994 Kyoto Prize

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In Brief

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Polykarp Kusch

Vernon Hughes
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Llewellyn H. Thomas

Peter J. Price
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Ernest Keeling Warburton

Richard F. Casten and Peter D. Bond
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Vilen M. Strutinsky

Vladimir M. Kolomietz and Valery I. Abrosimov
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Anton Peterlin

Buckley Crist
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Hannes Risken

Hermann Haken, Wolfgang Schleich, and Hans D. Vollmer
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Richard H. Capps

Louis A. P. Balázs, Tzee‐Ke Kuo, Arnold Tubis, and Lonnie L. Van Zandt
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Sergio DeBenedetti

John D. McGervey and Lincoln Wolfenstein
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James G. Potter

J. D. Patterson and Jay Burns
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Clinton's Science Policy Doctrine: Lofty Goals But a Lesser Reality

Irwin Goodwin
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Clinton's Science Advisory Council Leaves Physics a Casualty of Times

Irwin Goodwin
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Concern for Marine Mammals Delays Oceanic Temperature‐Taking

Jean Kumagai
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Women See Gains in US Physics Professoriat

Jean Kumagai
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US Students Place Third at Physics Olympiad

Denis F. Cioffi
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