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December 1997

Volume 50, Issue 12

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Select this Article		Ancient Stardust in the Laboratory Thomas J. Bernatowicz and Robert M. Walker



	+ -	Show Topic As it collapsed to form the Solar System, material in the solar nebula was churned up and homogenized. But not everything was lost in the mix …

Select this Article		The Foundation of the Silicon Age Ian M. Ross



	+ -	Show Topic The transistor was the product of basic research with a clear technological goal, but although the new technology was anticipated, its revolutionary impact was not.

Select this Article		The Moses of Silicon Valley Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson



	+ -	Show Topic How did the epicenter of the semiconductor industry come to be located in California, a continent away from New Jersey, where the transistor was invented and most of the fundamental semiconductor technology was developed?

PHYSICS UPDATE

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



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LETTERS

Select this Article		How Should Physicists, Biologists Work Together? The ‘Harness the Hubris’ Debate Continues Jay S. Huebner, Eric Jakobsson, Hans G. Dam, V. Adrian Parsegian, and Robert H. Austin



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Select this Article		BNL Official Explains Sources and Handling of Tritium Leaks Peter Bond



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Select this Article		Lev Shubnikov: Physics Pioneer, Landau Ally, Secret‐Police Victim Helmut Rotter



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Select this Article		Smithsonian Official Tells Why Enola Gay Exhibit Was Shot Down I. Michael Heyman



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Select this Article		Entrenched Teacher Ponders Sokal Hoax and Student Beliefs Mark T. Murphy



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Select this Article		Hysteresis Research Is a Priority Issue Leon Gunther and Myriam P. Sarachik



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Select this Article		Do‐It‐Yourself Analysis Proposed for NCI's Data on Iodine‐131 Jon J. Thaler



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Select this Article		Book Review Fuels Debate on History of NMR Imaging James E. Mattson, Paul Dreizen, and Paul R. Moran



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Select this Article		Story of Refrigerator Designed by Einstein and Szilard Gets Iced Gene Dannen



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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Work on Atom Trapping and Cooling Gets a Warm Reception in Stockholm Barbara Goss Levi



	+ -	Show Topic An atom at room temperature zips around at thousands of kilometers per hour. A hit by a single photon barely fazes it. Yet somehow, researchers have harnessed radiation forces to slow atoms to a few centimeters per second and trap them in place. For that feat, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded.

Select this Article		Optical Frequency Measurement is Getting a Lot More Precise Bertram Schwarzschild



	+ -	Show Topic A new trick for the repeated halving of optical frequency intervals now permits the measurement of optical atomic transitions with unprecedented accuracy.

Select this Article		New Results Suggest X‐Ray Emission is a Common Property of Comets Charles Day



	+ -	Show Topic The brandisht Sword of God before them blaz'd Fierce as a Comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Libyan Air adust, Began to parch that Temperate Clime

OPINION

Select this Article		Fashions in Science and Technology Rolf Landauer



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BOOKS

Select this Article		Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics Peter Galison and W. K. H. Panofsky, Reviewer



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Select this Article		The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick Andrew Brown and Roger R. Stuewer, Reviewer



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Select this Article		The Critical Point: A Historical Introduction to the Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena Cyril Domb and Michael Wortis, Reviewer



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Select this Article		Atom Interferometry Paul R. Berman, Editor and Vasili Kharchenko, Reviewer



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Select this Article		Microdosimetry and Its Applications Harald H. Rossi, Marco Zaider, and Wesley Bolch, Reviewer



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Select this Article		How Nature Works: The Science of Self‐Organized Criticality Per Bak and Shobo Bhattacharya, Reviewer



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Select this Article		Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductor Multilayers Brian K. Ridley and Peter J. Price, Reviewer



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Select this Article		New Books



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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Spectroscopy Lawrence G. Rubin



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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		ASA Bestows Honors in San Diego



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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Joaquin M. Luttinger Philip W. Anderson, Richard M. Friedberg, and Walter Kohn



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Select this Article FREE		Martin Schwarzschild Bohdan Paczynski


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Select this Article FREE		Eugene Ghiron Fubini Harold Brown and Bert Fowler



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Select this Article FREE		Earl K. Hyde Richard M. Diamond



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Select this Article FREE		Jürgen H. Rahe Walter F. Huebner



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Select this Article FREE		O. B. “Bill” Morgan Michael J. Saltmarsh and Lee A. Berry



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Select this Article FREE		Edward Norman Maslen Syd Hall



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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		With Republicans and Science Societies in the Lead, Congress May Try to Double R&D Budget by 2008 Irwin Goodwin



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Select this Article		US Formally Rejects Leaked Claim that Russia Violated CTBT with Test Irwin Goodwin



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Select this Article		Lax Security at Nuclear Weapons Labs Leads DOE to Strengthen Precautions Irwin Goodwin



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Select this Article		Washington Ins & Outs: Kerr Heads FBI Crime Lab; O'Toole and Alm Leave DOE Irwin Goodwin



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Select this Article		Washington Dispatches Irwin Goodwin



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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Los Alamos's New Director Must Get Stockpile Stewardship in Gear, Grapple with Locals' Concerns Toni Feder



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Select this Article		SNO Gets Set to GO Toni Feder



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Select this Article		University of California Reviews Its Physics Programs Toni Feder



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Select this Article		Rossnagel is President‐Elect of AVS for 1998



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Select this Article		Ippen Will Lead OSA in 2000



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Select this Article		IBM Will Open Research Center in India



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Select this Article		In Brief



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Select this Article		Web Watch Graham P. Collins



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