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March 1996

Volume 49, Issue 3

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Select this Article		Music from Oil Drums: The Acoustics of the Steel Pan Thomas D. Rossing, D. Scott Hampton, and Uwe J. Hansen


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	+ -	Show Topic Over the past 50 years, the steel pan has evolved from a Caribbean folk instrument into a versatile and popular instrument, used worldwide in musical styles ranging from symphonic to calypso. Behind its rich sound lie some interesting acoustical properties.

Select this Article		James Dewar, His Flask and Other Achievements Robert J. Soulen, Jr.


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	+ -	Show Topic Blurring the line between physics and chemistry, he advanced the research frontier in several fields at the turn of the century, gave dazzling lectures and invented the dewar flask—which also gave us the vacuum bottle.

Select this Article		Tuning in to Noise Adi R. Bulsara and Luca Gammaitoni


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Select this Article		Power Applications of High‐Temperature Superconductors Gloria B. Lubkin See Also: Erratum


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe and Ray Ladbury


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		What's Wrong with this Sustaining Myth? N. David Mermin


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Derivatives Trading: Physicists Favor Less Complex and Risky Theory Jean‐Philippe Bouchaud and Didier Sornette


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Select this Article		Celestial Rays Raise Hopes of Finding Their Sources Halton Arp


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Select this Article		Lowest Notes on Violin Require Skill and Guts Joseph Nagyvary


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Select this Article		Cartoon Assessment Reuben E. Alley


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Select this Article		LHC May Be on Collision Course with Higgs Boson Gianluigi Fogli and Eligio Lisi


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Select this Article		Courage Bred at Oak Ridge Sets Example Zane Spiegel


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Select this Article		Quantum Mechanics Books Include Software Kenneth J. Quinn


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Select this Article		Atoms on the Move—Up, Down and Acrostic Paul W. Carter


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Select this Article		Correction


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Antihydrogen Makes a Fleeting Debut Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Experimenters Produce New Bose–Einstein Condensate(s) and Possible Puzzles for Theorists Graham P. Collins


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Select this Article		Labs Demonstrate Logic Gates for Quantum Computation Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Quantum Interference Used to Eliminate Optical Problem Barbara Goss Levi


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		St. Louis Will Host the APS March Meeting


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Fritz London: A Scientific Biography Kostas Gavroglu and Anthony J. Leggett, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Myth of Scientific Literacy Morris H. Shamos and Ruth Howes, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Force of Symmetry Vincent Icke and Lawrence M. Krauss, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Laser Experiments for Beginners Richard N. Zare, Bertrand H. Spencer, Dwight S. Springer, Matthew P. Jacobson, and Arjun G. Yodh, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Algebraic Theory of Molecules Francesco Iachello, Raphael D. Levine, and R. Stephen Berry, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Spectra of Atoms and Molecules Peter F. Bernath and Alexander Dalgarno, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Advances in Photochemistry D. C. Neckers, Editor, D. H. Volman, Editor, G. von Bünau, Editor, and Nicholas J. Turro, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Effects of Atomic Radiation: A Half‐Century of Studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Atomic Bomb Injuries William J. Schull, Nobuo Kusano, and David S. Gooden, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Detectors


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAAS Announces Annual Awards


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Select this Article		OSA Names Award Recipients for 1996


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Nathan Rosen Peter G. Bergmann, Eugen Merzbacher, and Asher Peres See Also: Erratum


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Select this Article FREE		Carson Dunning Jeffries Erwin L. Hahn, Walter D. Knight, Alan M. Portis, and John H. Reynolds


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Select this Article FREE		A. J. C. Wilson S. C. Abrahams and J. I. Langford


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Select this Article FREE		Benjamin Post J. Lawrence Katz and Hugo Steinfink


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Select this Article FREE		Claude Itzykson Edouard Brézin


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Select this Article FREE		Willy Werner Van Roosbroeck James Josenhans


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Select this Article FREE		Frank Evans Myers Raymond J. Emrich, Lester Guttman, and Clifford G. Shull


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Select this Article FREE		Igor F. Schegolev Lev Bulaevskii, Rimma Shibaeva, and Rustem Lyubovskii


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CAREER CHOICES

Select this Article		Creating a Place Where Science is Fun Jean Kumagai


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		In Winter of Discontent, Lane, Curtis and Gibbons Light Fires Under Scientists to Awaken Congress Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Almost Halfway into FY 1996, Many Science Budgets Still Uncertain as Next Budget Cycle Begins Irwin Goodwin


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