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November 1995

Volume 48, Issue 11

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Special Issue: X Rays 100 Years Later

Stephen G. Benka and Gloria B. Lubkin
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the Glimmer of Light

Howard H. Seliger
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A faint fluorescence spied out of the corner of a man's eye in a darkened laboratory heralded the discovery, one hundred years ago, of ‘a new kind of rays’ that would revolutionize physics and medicine.

Recent Applications of X Rays in Condensed Matter Physics

Jens Als‐Nielsen and Gerhard Materlik
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Advances in x‐ray source brightness, detector efficiency, x‐ray optics and computing power promise to make the second century of x‐ray applications in condensed matter physics as exciting as the first.

X Rays in Molecular Biophysics

Wayne A. Hendrickson
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An atom‐by‐atom understanding of life processes is emerging from a flurry of experiments fueled by synchrotron sources and DNA technology.

X Rays in Medicine

William R. Hendee
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For almost a century, x rays have been used for medical imaging and for radiation therapy. Now these two clinical regimes are converging in the latest technology.

X Rays From the Rest of the Universe

David J. Helfand
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X‐ray sources in space are serving more and more as valuable laboratories for astrophysics, nuclear physics, relativity, plasma physics and cosmology.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein
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Medical Physics Profession Faces Growth Limits

G. Donald Frey
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NSF Invites Input on Review Process

Anne C. Petersen
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How Not to Cut One's Fingers in Physics

Alexander N. Gerritsen
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Message to Congress: More Support, Not Less

Martin Apple
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Physics Teaching in Context

Jim Mcguire
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Physics Teaching in Another Context

Martha Schwartz and Leon M. Lederman
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Einstein a Red? The Response Was Verse

Norman F. Stanley
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Correction

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New Gamma Detector Array Finds Evidence of Hyperdeformed Nuclei

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Some heavy nuclei, if you can make them spin fast enough, seem to acquire a surprisingly stable cigar shape three times as long as it is wide.

STM Gets to the Core of the Matter in a High‐Tc Superconductor

Barbara Goss Levi
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Researchers at the University of Geneva have succeeded in applying scanning tunneling microscopy to one type of high‐Tc superconductor, opening the door to further study of the v0ortex cores.
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The Physical Review: The First Hundred Years. A Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries

H. Henry Stroke and Hans A. Bethe, Reviewer
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The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 1: Foundations

Steven Weinberg and O. W. Greenberg, Reviewer
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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Paul Davies and David Layzer, Reviewer
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Principles of Condensed Matter Physics

Paul M. Chaikin, Thomas C. Lubensky, and Thomas A. Witten, Reviewer
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Diagrammatica: The Path to Feynman Diagrams

M. Veltman, Ernest Ma, Reviewer, and José Wudka, Reviewer
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Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony

James T. Cushing and Norman Levitt, Reviewer
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Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields

Claude Cohen‐Tannoudji and Ugo Fano, Reviewer
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Nuclear and Particle Physics

W. E. Burcham, M. Jobes, and Ernest M. Henley, Reviewer
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Computer Simulations with Mathematica: Explorations in Complex Physical and Biological Systems and Mathematica Graphics: Techniques and Applications

Richard J. Gaylord, Paul R. Wellin, Tom Wickham‐Jones, and Alec J. Schramm, Reviewer
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The Encyclopedia of Advanced Materials

David Bloor, Richard J. Brook, Merton C. Flemings, Subhash Mahajan, and Francis Disalvo, Reviewer
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Physics Experiments Using PCs: A Guide for Instructors and Students

H. M. Staudenmaier and Ruth Howes, Reviewer
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Geophysical Inverse Theory

Robert L. Parker and Adam M. Dziewonski, Reviewer
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Correction

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New Books

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New Products

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National Medals of Science and Technology Awarded

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Heeger Garners Balzan Prize

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AAPT Honors Zollman and Franken

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APS Presents Awards at Division Meetings

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OSA Announces Recipients of Several Awards

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Eugene N. Parker
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T. Keith Glennan

Roger D. Launius
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Edward Nicollian

Raphael Tsu
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PhD Programs II: NRC's New Pecking Order Sets Off Crowing and Puts Some Danders Up

Irwin Goodwin
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Clinton Directive Gives Nuclear Labs New Lease on Life as Stockpile Stewards

Irwin Goodwin
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Do Single‐Sex Classes Help Girls Succeed in Physics?

Jean Kumagai
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Dirac to Be Given an Honored Place Beside Newton in Westminster Abbey

Irwin Goodwin
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Proposed UNESCO Satellite Generates More Heat Than Light

Denis F. Cioffi
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Thomas Elected to Lead AAPM in 1997

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New Sandia Director and Deputy Director

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Bjorklund is OSA Vice President for 1996

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