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December 1995

Volume 48, Issue 12

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What Future Will We Choose for Physics?

Sol M. Gruner, James S. Langer, Phil Nelson, and Viola Vogel


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US physics faculties are aging rapidly and responding far too slowly to new opportunities across the sciences. We must reverse the trends if we are to preserve the historic vitality of the profession.
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Scanning Force Microscopy in Biology

Carlos Bustamante and David Keller
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A high‐resolution instrument that can operate in liquids is making complex biological structures accessible to study in conditions close to those that exist in living organisms.

Eugene Paul Wigner: A Towering Figure of Modern Physics

Erich Vogt
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He was always ‘reasonable’ and believed that physics had a duty to provide a living picture of our world.

Symmetry in Physics: Wigner's Legacy

David J. Gross
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The role of symmetry in physics has evolved greatly during this century. Eugene Wigner made profound contributions to this development.
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Physics Update

Benjamin P. Stein, Phillip F. Schewe, and Graham P. Collins
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Sergei Vavilov, Honored in Russia, Still Little Known in the West

B. M. Bolotowsky and Yu. N. Vavilov
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Theory of Hadronic Watches Fielded

Tarun Biswas
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Drell Clarifies Nuclear Stance

Sidney D. Drell
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Eugene Wigner Remembered

John W. Wooten
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Correction: Taking the Pressure Off

Philip McGuinness and Liam A. Doyle
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Getting a Fix on Origins of GPS

Roger Easton and Ivan A. Getting
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Superfluid Rollin Film Gets Exposed

Claude Kacser and Satindar Bhagat
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Modulus Vivendi

R. William Buckman and Gary L. Kinsland
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Sky Spy Lens Revealed

Leonard X. Finegold
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Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Frederick Reines for Detection of the Neutrino…

Gloria B. Lubkin
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In the 1950s Reines and Cowan sought and found the hypothetical particle postulated by Pauli in 1930. Four decades later (two decades after Cowan's death) Reines is being honored for this feat.

…and Martin Perl Wins for Discovering the Tau Lepton

Bertram Schwarzshild
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The discovery of a third charged lepton, 20 years ago, gave us the first glimpse of a third “generation” of fundamental particles.

Nobel Chemistry Prize Gives a Stratospheric Boost to Atmospheric Scientists

Barbara Goss Levi
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After identifying mechanisms for atmospheric ozone depletion, Crutzen, Molina and Rowland have continued to strengthen our understanding of such processes
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 5: The Swiss Years Writings, 1902–1914

Anna Beck and Mendel Sachs, Reviewer
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Fractal Physiology

J. B. Bassingthwaighte, L. S. Liebovitch, B. J. West, and H. Eugene Stanley, Reviewer
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An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Paul Teller and Eugen Merzbacher, Reviewer
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Solid Helium Three

E. R. Dobbs and Michael Cross, Reviewer
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Introduction to Solid State Physics and Introduction to the Physics of Electrons in Solids

B. K. Tanner and James C. Phillips, Reviewer
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Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry and Mechanics: From Newton's Laws to Deterministic Chaos

Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor S. Ratiu, Florian Scheck, and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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Detection of Light: From the Ultraviolet to the Submillimeter

George H. Rieke and Lawrence G. Rubin, Reviewer
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Space Plasmas: Coupling Between Small and Medium Scale Processes

Maha Ashour‐Abdalla, Tom Chang, Paul Dusenbery, and Timothy E. Eastman, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Ketchen and Chaisson Honored by AIP

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ASA Presents Awards at Fall Meeting

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In Brief

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Aaron N. Bloch

Morrel H. Cohen
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Lee C. Northcliffe

George Glass, James E. Simmons, Robert Kenefick, and John A. McIntyre
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Shyamadas Chatterjee

Dwarka N. Bose
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Hubert Jose Yearian

Ralph Bray, Solomon Gartenhaus, Robert Buschert, and Mason Yearian
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Ernest Rost

James R. Shepard
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Bringing Physics to the People, Texas Style

Jean Kumagai
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With High‐Energy Physicists Jittery, DOE Begins Talks with LHC Leaders

Irwin Goodwin
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Aggressive Reforms and Downsizing Will Imporve DOE Labs, Says Panel

Irwin Goodwin
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New Order at Bell Labs after AT&T's Breakup

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Wissbrun is President of Society of Rheology

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Journal of Rheology Gets a New Editor

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AVS Elects McGuire to Be President Elect

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