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Volume 51, Issue 8

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Select this Article		The Revealing Role of Pressure in the Condensed Matter Sciences Russell J. Hemley and Neil W. Ashcroft


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Select this Article		A Surface View of Etching John J. Boland and John H. Weaver


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Select this Article		Self‐Trapping of Optical Beams: Spatial Solitons Mordechai Segev and George Stegeman


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Stephen G. Benka, Phillip F. Schewe, and Benjamin P. Stein


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Illuminating the Obscure Roger D. Blandford


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Terminology and Science Literacy Issues Extend the Debate on Revamping Science's Relation to Society R. E. Wilson, Charles F. Keller, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., and Radford Byerly, Jr.


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Select this Article		Félix Varela is in Line to Be Sainted Physics Teacher Rubén L. Marti De Castillo


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Select this Article		More on Marietta Blau and the Physicists of Pre‐, Postwar Vienna Arnold Perlmutter, Joseph F. Aschner, Manfred Drosg, and Peter Galison


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Select this Article		Dispute about Electron Discovery Resumes—And Clearly Hurts Some David Walsh, Joseph F. Mulligan, and Max J. Lazarus


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Select this Article		Memories of Casting a Wide Nyet at Geneva Talks in Late 1950s Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky


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Select this Article		Award “Good Physics” Seal to Approved Nonphysics Texts William Hooper


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Select this Article		Fifteen Ways to Get Your Audience to Leave You Peter Sigmund


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Cosmic‐Ray Showers Provide Strong Evidence of Neutrino Flavor Oscillation Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Strings May Tie Quantum Gravity to Quantum Chromodynamics Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Duality Demonstrated on D‐Branes Barbara Goss Levi

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Select this Article		Berlin–Heidelberg Group Reports Phase Transition in Glass at Millikelvins in Presence of Microtesla Field Gloria B. Lubkin


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Nigel Goldenfeld, Reviewer


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Select this Article		What is Mathematics, Really? Reuben Hersh and Joseph A. Rudnick, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Traces of the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology Through Chemistry Joseph B. Lambert and Garman Harbottle, Reviewer


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Select this Article		An Equation that Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity Harald Fritzsch and Fritz Rohrlich, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Interpreting the Quantum World Jeffrey Bub and Richard Heajley, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions to the End of Time Lawrence M. Krauss and Joshua A. Frieman, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopic Systems: Mathematical Methods in the Quantum Signatures of Chaos Norman E. Hurt and Martin C. Gutzwiller, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Experimental Innovations in Surface Science: A Guide to Practical Laboratory Methods and Instruments John T. Yates, Jr and Lawrence G. Rubin, Reviewer


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Select this Article		X‐Ray Charge Densities and Chemical Bonding Philip Coppens and Kersti Hermansson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Magnetism Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Lieb, Widom Given Boltzmann Award


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Select this Article		Berners‐Lee, Carlstrom, Santer Named Macarthur Fellows


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Robert Adolph Becker George A. Paulekas and Dale Vrabec


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Select this Article FREE		Arthur Constantine Damask Thomas L. Bohan, George Jay Dienes, and Rutherford Fischer


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Select this Article FREE		Siegfried Flügge Friedrich Schlögl


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Select this Article FREE		Melvin Slein Freedman Roy Ringo


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Select this Article FREE		Thomas Andrew Potemra Richard W. McEntire, Lawrence J. Zanetti, and Stamatios M. Krimigis


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Select this Article FREE		Ragnar Oswald Rollefson Hugh T. Richards


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		The Price of Victory in Cold War is $5.8 Trillion for Nuclear Arms and Delivery Systems, Says Panel Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Clinton Names UN Ambassador Richardson to Succeed Peña as Energy Secretary Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Briefings Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		New Minister is Unlikely to Resuscitate Russian Science Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Neutrino Experiment's Gallium Remains under Siege Toni Feder


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Select this Article		As US–Cuba Ties Improve, Scientists Ask that Travel Restrictions Be Lifted Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		University of Texas Opens Materials Institute Toni Feder


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Select this Article		In Brief


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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