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September 1996

Volume 49, Issue 9

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Select this Article		How Things Break Michael Marder and Jay Fineberg


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Select this Article		Extrasolar Planets Alan P. Boss


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	+ -	Show Topic Astronomers have recently found planets orbiting nearby stars, ending centuries of speculation and opening up an exciting, already busy, field of research.

Select this Article		The Discovery of Superconductivity Jacobus De Nobel and Peter Lindenfeld


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Select this Article		Memories of Richard Feynman Anthony J. G. Hey


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein


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LETTERS

Select this Article		What Wigner Meant to Signal Theory, What ‘Particle’ Meant to Wigner James B. Lee and Arthur A. Broyles


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Select this Article		Spacetime May Be Chief Source of Proton Spin Marcelo S. Berman and Rubens M. Marinho, Jr


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Select this Article		More on Schwinger's Views on Cold Fusion Scott R. Chubb


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Select this Article		Henry Russell Had a Role in US Astronomy, But Not in PT Story Lawrence H. Aller, John Lankford, and Ricky L. Slavings


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Select this Article		Phase Diagram Was Out of Sync with Record Sebastian Doniach


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Select this Article		Quarternionic QM Updates Provided at ASI Web Site Stephen L. Adler


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Select this Article		More on Vavilov's Contributions to 20th‐Century Physics Roy Pike and Robert G. W. Brown


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Select this Article		Swann's Way Helped Shape Lawrence's Work on Cyclotron C. E. Mandeville


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		In Earth's Magnetic Pas de Deux, the Inner Core Leads Ray Ladbury


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Select this Article		Martians Invaded Earth 13 000 Years Ago—Maybe Ray Ladbury


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Select this Article		One‐Dimensional Systems Show Signs of Interacting Electrons Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		LEP is Now Making Pairs of W Bosons Bertram Schwarzschild


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		American Vacuum Society Meets in Philadelphia


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BOOKS

Select this Article		A History of Astronomy: From 1890 to the Present David Leverington and Kevin Krisciunas, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics Leonard F. Burlaga and W. H. Matthaeus, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Collected Works of P. A. M. Dirac, 1924–1948 and General Theory of Relativity Richard H. Dalitz, P. A. M. Dirac, and R. Corby Hovis, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Interfaces in Crystalline Materials and Surfaces and Interfaces of Solid Materials Adrian P. Sutton, Robert W. Balluffi, Hans Lüth, and J. Murray Gibson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Atom Optics with Laser Light Victor I. Balykin, Vladilen S. Letokhov, and Mara Prentiss, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Superconductivity C. P. Poole, Jr, H. A. Farach, R. J. Creswick, and Anthony J. Leggett, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Heinrich Hertz: A Short Life Charles Susskind and Jed Buchwald, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Particle Physics at the New Millennium Byron P. Roe and Alexander Firestone, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Magnetism


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		IEEE Gives Annual Awards


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Robley Evans Gordon L. Brownell


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Select this Article FREE		Russell Lee Robinson James Ball and Joseph Hamilton


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Select this Article FREE		LeRoy Elsworth Doggett P. K. Seidelmann


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Select this Article FREE		Bernard Bruno Kinsey Anthony P. French, James W. Jagger, Vitthalbhai D. Mistry, Peter J. Riley, and Austin M. Gleeson


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Select this Article FREE		Ingram Bloch William T. Pinkston and Wendell G. Holladay


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Select this Article FREE		Nathan Ginsburg J. N. Goldberg and Fritz Rohrlich


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Select this Article FREE		Trevor Simpson Moss Donald H. Tomlin


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CAREER CHOICES

Select this Article		Taking the Ultimate Flight


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		DOD Upgrades Its Supercomputing Facilities, and Forges New Partnerships with Academia Toni Feder


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Select this Article		ESA Council Elects New Chairman Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Physics Olympiad Held in Oslo Toni Feder


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Select this Article		APS Fellowship to Foster Better Science Reporting Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		Nova Opens with Portrayal of Einstein Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		New Group Supports Hispanics in Physics


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Select this Article		Knauss is President‐Elect of AGU


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Select this Article		AIP Halts PINET and Launches Web Service


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Select this Article		In Brief


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