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January 1998

Volume 51, Issue 1

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Ultrahigh‐Intensity Lasers: Physics of the Extreme on a Tabletop

Gérard A. Mourou, Christopher P. J. Barry, and Michael D. Perry
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By stretching, amplifying and then compressing laser pulses, one can reach petawatt powers, gigagauss magnetic fields, terabar light pressures and 1022 m∕s2 electron accelerations.

The Highest‐Energy Cosmic Rays

Thomas O'Halloran, Pierre Sokolsky, and Shigeru Yoshida
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What in the cosmos can possibly be accelerating protons to 1020 electron volts and beyond? And how can they preserve such extreme energies while plowing through the cosmic microwave background on their way to us?

When Liquids Stay Dry

Pasquale Dell'Aversana and G. Paul Neitzel
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Once just a scientific curiosity, noncoalescence now offers intriguing applications—and the prospect of more to come.
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Physics Update

Stephen G. Benka and Phillip F. Schewe
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Why Are There Analogies Between Condensed Matter and Particle Theory?

Frank Wilczek
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More on Radioactive Waste Disposal: Other Approaches Proposed, Discussed

John E. Tanner, Jr., Ludwik Kowalski, Frank Rahn, Joseph J. Devaney, Jack Newman, and John F. Ahearne
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Ps: Nuclear Waste Terms Redefined

George John


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The ‘Atom Laser’ and the Constructs of Physicists—Revisited

F. Curtis Michel, Anthony E. Siegman, and Daniel Kleppner
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The Constructs of Physics and the Role of Math—Revisited

Paul Roman, Alfred A. Brooks, Roger g. Newton, and Lorenzo De La Torre
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Physicist Honored for Acting Bravely—and Without Uncertainty

Fred Vanderschmidt
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Centenarian Regretted Lack of Better Plan for Working after 65

Robert T. Beyer
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Recalling Verse, Reader Vexed; Query Terse: What Comes Next?

Michael Mcneil
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Kondo Physics Seen in a Quantum Dot

Barbara Goss Levi
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More than 30 years after the discovery of the Kondo effect, which is caused by magnetic impurities in metals, researchers may now be able to study the phenomenon more precisely because a quantum dot with an odd number of electrons seems to mimic the behavior of an individual magnetic atom.

Springtime Arctic Ozone Levels Fall Further in 1997

Graham P. Collins
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Albert Einstein: A Biography

Albrecht Fölsing and John Stachel, Reviewer
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Physics of Biological Systems: From Molecules to Species

Henrik Flyvbjerg, John Hertz, Mogens H. Jensen, Ole G. Mouritsen, Kim Sneppen, and Johnny Powell, Reviewer
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Why Toast Lands Jelly‐Side Down: Zen and the Art of Physics Demonstrations

Robert Ehrlich and Richard E. Berg, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements

John R. Taylor and William Thompson, Reviewer
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Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics

John N. Bahcall, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, and Wick C. Haxton, Reviewer
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Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics

Yoseph Imry and Michael Tinkham, Reviewer
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Voyages Through the Universe

Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney Wolff, and Laurence A. Marschall, Reviewer
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The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light

David Park and A. Mark Smith, Reviewer
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Introduction to Bioengineering

Stanley A. Berger, Werner Goldsmith, Edwin R. Lewis, and Floyd Dunn, Reviewer
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Nonlinear Optics

E. G. Sauter and Christos Flytzanis, Reviewer
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Black Holes: Gravitational Interactions

Peter D. D'eath and Robert M. Wald, Reviewer


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New Books

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Focus on Data Acquisition

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Winners of AAS Divisional Prizes Announced

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OSA Bestows Engineering Excellence Awards

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In Brief

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Norris Edwin Bradbury

Glenn T. Seaborg
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Andrey Stanislavovich Borovik‐Romanov

Alexander F. Andreev, Vladmir V. Dmitriev, and David M. Lee
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Albert Louis Latter

Harold L. Brode
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Joseph Melvin Reynolds

Roy G. Goodrich and William O. Hamilton
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Karl Gunther Kessler

Ralph P. Hudson and William C. Martin
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Gurgen Ashotovich Askar'yan

Sergei V. Bulanov, Bruno Coppi, Nikolaj D. Karlov, and Francesco Pegoraro
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DOE Chooses SUNY at Stony Brook and Battelle to Operate Troubled Brookhaven Laboratory

Irwin Goodwin


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Washington Ins & Outs: Departures at NASA, House Science Committee and OSTP

Irwin Goodwin
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Employment Outlook for New Phds Improves, As Other Fields Hire More Physicists

Jean Kumagai


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One Europe, One Physics Journal?

Toni Feder
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Rat Wires Schools for the Internet

Toni Feder
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Kodak to Cut Its Workforce by 10%

Toni Feder
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Stith Now Heads AIP's Physics Programs

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Texas Instruments Hosted AIP's Corporate Associates

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APS Elects Langer Vice President for 1998

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Sears Will Lead AAPT in 2000

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Larson is Elected President of SoR

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In Brief

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Web Watch

Graham P. Collins
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