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January 1996

Volume 49, Issue 1

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Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy

Julian Maynard
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With a means of measuring a sample's natural resonance frequencies and a desktop computer, one can use resonant ultrasound spectroscopy to determine the elastic constants of a broad range of crystalline and noncrystalline materials.

The Industrialization of American Astronomy, 1880–1940

John Lankford and Ricky L. Slavings
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Big science took root in America long before World War II, as machines, money, personnel and leadership made astronomy the biggest of the sciences in the age of little science.

Electronic Publishing of Scientific Journals

Peter B. Boyce and Heather Dalterio
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We must avail ourselves of the extraordinary new possibilities offered by the Internet, but without compromising the high standards of the refereed research journals. The Astronomical Society's experience with electronic publishing offers some guidance.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein
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More on How Nazi Germany Failed to Develop the Atomic Bomb

Friedwardt Winterberg, Günter Herrmann, Igor Fodor, Lincoln Wolfenstein, and Mark E. Singer
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Manhattan Project: Book Faulted, Heisenberg Paged

Henry A. Boorse and Albert A. Bartlett
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Spin Model Skyrmish

Stanley J. Brodsky, John Ellis, Marek Karliner, and Robert L. Jaffe
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APS Statement on EM Fields Debated

Martin Blank, Reba Goodman, Scott W. Keyes, and David Hafemeister
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Review and Reveal the Reviewers

J. Ross Macdonald
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Textbook Follows the Rules

Ruth W. Chabay and Bruce A. Sherwood
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DisCERNing Man is Questionably Fast

Leonard X. Finegold
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Correction

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Geodynamo Turns Toward a Stable Magnetic Field

Ray Ladbury
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Supercomputer simulation shows 4 that fluid motions in Earth's core could sustain the geomagnetic field. Geophysicists are excited—and also a little relieved; such a “geodynamo” has been the only plausible explanation for geomagnetism for more than 40 years.

Experiments Probe the Wavefunction of Electron Pairs in High‐Tc Superconductors

Barbara Goss Levi
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As results from phase‐sensitive experiments accumulate, the nature of the wavefunction in high‐temperature superconductors is closer to being settled, but the pieces do not yet all fit.

Experimenters Cool Helium Below Single‐Photon Recoil Limit in Three Dimensions

Gloria B. Lubkin
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A helium atom moving in six directions at once can be regarded as a six‐legged Schrödinger cat.

Oak Ridge Builds Facility for Radioactive Ion Beams

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Richard Rhodes, Gennady Gorelik, Reviewer, and Barton J. Bernstein, Reviewer
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The Same and Not the Same

Roald Hoffmann and Freeman J. Dyson, Reviewer
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The Picture Book of Quantum Mechanics

Siegmund Brandt, Hans Dieter Dahmen, and R. Stephen Berry, Reviewer
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A Short History of the Universe

Joseph Silk and Lawrence Krauss, Reviewer
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At the Fringes of Science

Michael W. Friedlander and Harold W. Lewis, Reviewer
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Solid State Electrochemistry

Peter G. Bruce, Editor and M. Stanley Whittingham, Reviewer
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Atoms, Radiation and Radiation Protection

J. E. Turner and Charles A. Kelsey, Reviewer
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Abell's Exploration of the Universe, and Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe

David Morrison, Sidney Wolff, Andrew Fraknoi, J. M. Pasachoff, and Lawrence S. Pinsky, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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We Hear That

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Shechao Charles Feng

Ping Zhao, Qian Niu, Chao Tang, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Sudip Chakravarty
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Jacob Shaham

Ali Alpar, Tsvi Piran, David Pines, and Malvin Ruderman
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John Louis Vossen

Dorothy M. Hoffman, Bawa Singh, and Ted Madey
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Leopoldo M. Falicov

Marvin Cohen
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Charles Sydney Smith Jr

Lawrence Slifkin and Laurie McNeil
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Jean‐Louis Calais

Yngve Ohrn and John R. Sabin
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Budget Battles Leave Wounds on R&D that Are Likely to Fester for Years

Irwin Goodwin
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Senator Bennett Johnston Talks about Physicists in Politics

Irwin Goodwin
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Modest Gains Reported in Latest AIP Salary Survey

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Sessler Will Lead APS in 1998

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1996 Vice President of AAPT is O'Kuma

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In Brief

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Challenge to Scholarly Surveys Again Rejected

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