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February 1998

Volume 51, Issue 2

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The New Gamma‐Ray Astronomy

Neil Gehrels and Jacques Paul
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Nucleosynthesis sites, Galactic black holes, gamma‐ray bursters, blazars—all yield up secrets and surprises when observed with the latest gamma‐ray detectors.

Inventing US Science Policy

William A. Blanpied
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After President Truman rejected Vannevar Bush's proposal for a practical transition from wartime research to peacetime science, the President turned to a trusted aide to design science policy as we now know it.

Beyond Basic and Applied

Roger A. Pielke, Jr and Radford Byerly, Jr
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The separation of science from society is today seen as artificial and unsustainable. The scientific community needs to negotiate a new contract with the society that funds it.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein
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Thomson Challenged as Electron Discoverer, Alternatives Proposed

George Trilling, Max J. Lazarus, James M. Daniels, and Allan Franklin
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Caricature of Meitner Countered by Drawing on Historical Record

Irene Newhouse, Elisabeth Crawford, Ruth Lewin Sime, and Mark Walker
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Nobelists Played Roles in Implementation of ‘Fountain’ Experiment

Robert A. Naumann and H. Henry Stroke
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Peer Instruction Can Work, Memorization Needs to Be Improved

John M. Clement
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Breakthroughs Recalled on Transistor Precursors in Germany, France

Herbert F. Matare
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Concerned Scientist Says Work on Two‐Beam Accelerators Goes On

Ronald D. Ruth
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Name Put Forward of Another Physicist Who Writes Sci‐Fi Novels

Todd A. Brun
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Gamma Rays Create Matter Just by Plowing into Laser Light

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Quantum electrodynamics predicts that photons scattering off nothing but light should create electron‐positron pairs. But only now has this inelastic light‐light scattering been seen in the laboratory.

Quantum Teleportation Channels Opened in Rome and Innsbruck

Graham P. Collins
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Two experiments, using different optical schemes, have transmitted quantum states across a tabletop by means of classical messages and Einstein—Podolsky—Rosen entanglement. Applications will include new tests of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and quantum computation.

An Ion Clock Reaches the Accuracy of the Best Atomic Fountain

Barbara Goss Levi
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By cooling mercury ions and confining the ions to the one line in their linear ion trap where the RF field is exactly zero, researchers have minimized the jiggling and heating that have confounded many attempts to achieve precise determinations of frequency.

Space Clock to Fly on the International Space Station

Barbara Goss Levi
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Ultrahigh‐Energy Sound Waves Promise New Technologies

Ray Ladbury
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Researchers in acoustics have long wondered whether sound waves could replace mechanical components in devices such as compressors, combustion engines and pumps; now a team of researchers in Virginia has answered—with a very loud, YES!
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The City of Angels to Host the March APS Meeting

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The Story of Spin

Sin‐itiro Tomonaga and Fritz Rohrlich, Reviewer
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The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War

Gordon Fraser and Andrew M. Sessler, Reviewer
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Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others

Martin Rees and Lawrence M. Krauss, Reviewer
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Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars: Catalog and Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars: Finding Charts

Anatol M. Cherepashchuk, Natalia A. Katysheva, Tatjana S. Khruzina, Sergey Yu. Shugarov, and Scott Kenyon, Reviewer
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Giant Molecules: Here, There, and Everywhere

Alexander Yu. Grosberg, Alexei R. Khokhlov, and Thomas Halsey, Reviewer
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The Theory of Intermodular Forces

Anthony J. Stone and Krzysztof Szalewicz, Reviewer
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Theory of Interplanetary Flights

G. A. Gurzadyan and David Folta, Reviewer
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The Fusion Quest

T. Kenneth Fowler and William Happer, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Microscopy

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AGU Presents Awards at Bay Area Meeting

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In Brief

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Igor Nikolaevich Golovin

Dmitri D. Ryutov
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Gaspar Rodolfo Valenzuela

Scott R. Chubb
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Alexander Bruce Filuk

Thomas A. Mehlhorn
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Washington Dispatches

Irwin Goodwin
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Two Surveys Begin to Map the Universe in Three Dimensions

Toni Feder
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Dutch Telescope Gets New Director and Major Upgrade

Toni Feder
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White Male Physicist Champions Workplace Diversity

Jean Kumagai
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Maiani Tapped to Head CERN

Toni Feder
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Clearfield is Elected Vice President of ACA

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Science Education is Focus of Fundraising Campaign

Judith Barker
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In Brief

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Web Watch

Graham P. Collins
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