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February 1996

Volume 49, Issue 2

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The Discovery of Radioactivity

Lawrence Badash
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Chance favored Becquerel with cloudy days that hid his phosphorescent uranium salts from the sun. Further experiments led him to conclude that the salts emitted invisible, penetrating rays independent of their luminescence.

My Encounters—as a Physicist—with Mathematics

Roman Jackiw
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Descriptions of the physical universe and proofs of abstract mathematical theorems are sometimes intimately related.

Beyond Brownian Motion

Joseph Klafter, Michael F. Shlesinger, and Gert Zumofen
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Fractal generalizations of Brownian motion have proven to be a rich field in probability theory, statistical physics and chaotic dynamics.

Inelastic X‐Ray Scattering in Condensed Matter Systems

Eric D. Isaacs and Phil Platzman
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Advances in synchrotron sources of hard x rays promise to open a new frontier in the use of inelastic scattering to probe eV and sub‐eV electronic excitations in simple and complex solids and liquids.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe, Stephen G. Benka, and Bertram M. Schwarzschild
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Arabs, Israelis and Westerners Attend First Sinai Physics Meeting

Roman Jackiw
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Medical Physics is a Demanding Profession

Don Tolbert
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Spirited Debate on the Role of Science

William J. Spencer, Allan Walstad, and Burton Richter
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Human Rights Issues Aired at Meeting in China

Joseph L. Birman and Joel L. Lebowitz
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Write to Reply, Briefly

Alexander A. Berezin
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How to Become a Teacher—Quickly

Amy Viveiros
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Limit the Demand for Job References

Igor Beresnev
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Your Attenuation Please

Douglas R. Wyman
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US and Japan Plan to Create Cross‐Country Neutrino Beams

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Neutrino beams running hundreds of kilometers through the Earth, from accelerator to detector, would provide sensitive tests of neutrino flavor oscillation.

LEP Collider Moves Beyond the Z0

Ray Ladbury
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Last November, CERN's LEP collider looked at the highest‐energy e+e collisions yet achieved and saw no serious challenges to the standard model.
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Magnetism: Principles and Applications

Derek Craik and Robert W. Brown, Reviewer
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Guide to the Sun

Kenneth J. H. Phillips and Stephen M. White, Reviewer
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The Quantum Dot: A Journey into the Future of Microelectronics

Richard Turton and Rolf W. Landauer, Reviewer
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Fundamentals of Optical Fibers

John A. Buck and Ira Jacobs, Reviewer
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Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics

J. Dirk Walecka and Gerald A. Miller, Reviewer
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Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics

Daniel Kaplan, Leon Glass, and Stanley A. Berger, Reviewer
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Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty

J. Rosser Matthews and Donald E. Herbert, Reviewer
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Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity, or a Walk Through Superspace

Iosef L. Buchbinder, Sergei M. Kuzenko, and S. James Gates, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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Fano and Kamen Honored with Fermi Award

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AGU Honors Five at Fall Meeting

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AAS Divisions Award Prizes for 1995

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In Brief

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Rudolph E. Peierls

Sam Edwards
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Nicolas J. Papastamatiou

John L. Friedman, Moises Levy, Richard Sorbello, and A. P. Balachandran
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Daniel Bershader

Holt Ashley
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House Science Chair to Retire from Congress

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Physicists Learn from Budget Battle at City College of New York

Jean Kumagai
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Few Changes So Far in National Labs' Physics Workforce

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Bertsch Replaces Pines as RMP Editor

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Clardy is Elected Vice President of ACA

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Johnson Becomes Editor of Optics Letters

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In Brief

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