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December 1998

Volume 51, Issue 12

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Simple Ordering in Complex Fluids

Alice P. Gast and William B. Russel
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Colloidal particles suspended in solution provide intriguing models for studying phase transitions.

El Niño Dynamics

J. David Neelin and Mojib Latif
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Bringer of storms and droughts, the El Niño∕Southern Oscillation results from the complex, sometimes chaotic interplay of ocean and atmosphere.

Fiscal Physicists

Lloyd Kannenberg
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Physicists are among the select few individuals to be immortalized on banknotes.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Barbara Goss Levi
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Tales of Bitter Magnetism: Frog Eggs, Blood Cells, Pigeon Feet, Metal Shreds and a Sore Head

James M. Valles, Jr, James M. Denegre, Kimberly L. Mowry, David R. Kelland, and Andrey Geim
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Conceiver and First Director of Magnet Lab Was Clearly Lax

Simon Foner and Donald T. Stevenson
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More on Chances of Recent Physics Phd's Getting Faculty Slots

Barrett Ripin
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How Gamow Dismayed Los Alamos by Taking on a Nuclear Test

Nathan Spielberg
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Debate on Estimating Asian Nuclear Test Yields isn't Artless

Jack F. Evernden and David Albright
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More about Philipp Lenarda—Physicist, Nobelist, Racist

Claude Kacser
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German Gains Upper Hand Over Latin in ‘Manned’ Spaceflight

Jeffrey F. Friedman and John Coleman
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Correction

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Physics Nobel Prize Goes to Tsui, Stormer and Laughlin for the Fractional QuantumHall Effect

Bertram Schwarzschild
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In the 16 years since the totally unanlicipated discovery of the first of the fractional quantum Hall states, these intriguing quantum liquids have spawned a thriving cottage industry for theorists and experimenters.

Nobel Prize Honors Kohn and Pople for Methods of Quantum Chemistry

Barbara Goss Levi
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Quantum mechanics tells you how to solve molecular structure, in principle. Kohn and Pople, in different ways, made it possible in practice.

Two‐Dimensional Electron Gases Continue to Exhibit Intriguing Behavior

Barbara Goss Levi
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Researchers have taken a closer look at some funny structure noted years ago in the resistivity of a quantum Hall sample at low magnetic fields. The prevailing explanation for what they see is that the electrons are forming charge density waves.
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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

G. Pascal Zachary and Jessica Wang, Reviewer
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Master of Modern Physics: The Scientific Contributions of H. A. Kramers

Dirk ter Haar and Jan Korringa, Reviewer
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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature And People

Steven Vogel and Howard C. Berg, Reviewer
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Black Holes and Relativistic Stars and the Man Behind the Legend

Robert M. Wald, Kameshwar C. Wali, and Stuart L. Shapiro, Reviewer
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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation

John L. Casti and Alvin M. Saperstein, Reviewer
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Introduction to Geomagnetic Fields

Wallace H. Campbell and Subir K. Banerjee, Reviewer
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The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction

Theodore Frankel and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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Chaos in Atomic Physics

Reinhold Blumel, William P. Reinhardt, Turgay Uzer, and David Farrelly, Reviewer
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Adventures in Celestial Mechanics

Victor G. Szebehely, Hans Mark, and P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Spectroscopy

Lawrence G. Rubin
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In Brief

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Shlomo Alexander

Zeev Luz, Robijn Bruinsma, Yitzhak Rabin, and Pierre‐Gilles DeGennes
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Achilles Papapetrou

John Stachel
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Germany Assembles Nanotechnology Networks

Toni Feder
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Cambridge to Get New Library, Hawking Archive

Toni Feder
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Hogstrom is AAPM's President‐Elect for 1999

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APS Elects Trilling Vice President

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Powell Will Lead OSA in 2001

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AVS President‐Elect for 1999 Is Grunthaner

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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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