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October 1997

Volume 50, Issue 10

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Special Issue: The Ubiquitous Electron

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Are There Really Electrons? Experiment and Reality

Allan Franklin
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J. J. Thomson “discovered” the electron a hundred years ago. Eventually, the accumulating experimental and theoretical evidence made it clear to all but the most obdurate skeptics that there really are electrons.

The Leptons After 100 Years

Martin L. Perl
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Puzzles and mysteries abound: Are there more than just the six leptons already known; what is the intrinsic difference between the electron, the muon and the tau; do neutrinos have mass?

When the Electron Falls Apart

Philip W. Anderson
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In condensed matter physics, some particles behave like fragments of an electron.

On Some Modern Uses of the Electron in Logic and Memory

Alan Fowler
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How silicon MOSFET technology came to dominate the ways in which electrons are used in logic and memory devices; will this dominance continue?

Reading and Writing with Electron Beams

J. Murray Gibson
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Reaching to smaller and smaller scales, modern electron beams are used for studying atomic arrangements inside solids and for imprinting tiny patterns on semiconductor chips.
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Physics Update

Benjamin P. Stein and Phillip F. Schewe
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What's Wrong with This Reading

N. David Mermin
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Another Approach to Introductory Physics: Focus on Unifying Micro‐ and Macrophysics

Marcelo Alonso and Edward J. Finn
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Keeping Scientist from Cuba Out of US Was Right Thing to Do

Carlos Delgado
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California Traffic Has Been Making Kinematic Waves since Fifties

C. J. van der Veen
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Earth Science Beckons to Physicists Taking Quantitative Approach

Sean W. Fleming
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A Sum of Scientists Get Science Right by Writing Fiction

Elisabeth M. Brown
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Relationship between Natural and Man‐Made Elements Is Platonic

Robert C. Tompkins
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Corrections

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Quantum Oscillations Ring Out Loud and Clear

Barbara Goss Levi
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It took a sophisticated instrument—the human ear—to alert Berkeley researchers that the quantum oscillations they sought were indeed coming from their container of superfluid helium‐3. Their experiment is a dramatic demonstration of the AC Josephson effect in superfluids.

Exhaustive Searching Is Less Tiring with a Bit of Quantum Magic

Graham P. Collins
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Quantum computers have been shown to provide a dramatic speedup over classical computers in solving problems by exhaustive searching. For example, the widely used 56‐bit Data Encryption Standard could be cracked with a mere 200 million or so computations instead of about 35 quadrillion.

From Ethane to Benzene through a Supersonic Nozzle

Barbara Goss Levi
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By exploiting a nonequilibrium reaction, Harvard chemists have found they can readily produce a high yield of unsaturated hydrocarbons starting with a hydrocarbon that is normally rather unreactive.
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A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World

Abraham Pais and Silvan S. Schweber, Reviewer
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American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859–1940 and History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia

John Lankford and Norriss Hetherington, Reviewer
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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins

Alan Guth and Joseph Silk, Reviewer
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Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War

Hugh Gusterson and William Happer, Reviewer
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Introductory Statistical Mechanics

Roger Bowley, Mariana Sánchez, and Robert S. Knox, Reviewer
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Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age

Anthony Aveni and E. C. Krupp, Reviewer
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Astrostatistics

G. Jogesh Babu, Eric D. Feigelson, and D. Keith Robinson, Reviewer
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Quantum Mechanics: Classical Results, Modern Systems, and Visualized Examples and Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications to Technology

Richard W. Robinett, Jasprit Singh, and Suzanne Amador, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Superconductivity

Lawrence G. Rubin
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ICTP Dirac Medal Goes to Field Theorists

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Prizes and Awards Given at APS Division Meetings

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Fuller and Metzner Honored by SoR

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European Society Honors Geophysicists

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In Brief

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Chien‐Shiung Wu

Richard L. Garwin and Tsung‐Dao Lee
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Lyman Spitzer Jr

John N. Bahcall and Jeremiah P. Ostriker
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J. Carson Mark

Albert G. Petschek, George I. Bell, and Hans A. Bethe
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Friedrich Hund

Helmut Rechenberg
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Tosiya Taniuti

Katsunobu Nishihara, Akira Hasegawa, Martin D. Kruskal, Norman J. Zabusky, and James W. Van Dam
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James Raymond Lawson

Ronald E. Mickens
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Peña Vows to Speed Up Lab Reforms in Wake of Political Sharpshooting

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Dispatches

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Ins & Outs: Moore to OSTP, Kammer to NIST and OMB loses Two

Irwin Goodwin
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Chile Rejoins Gemini Telescope Project as a Full‐Fledged Member

Toni Feder
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Biologist Baltimore is Caltech President

Toni Feder
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In Brief

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Web Watch

Graham P. Collins
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Calendar

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