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March 1999

Volume 52, Issue 3

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Special Issue: The Physics Community and the Wider World

Jerome Friedman
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APS and the Wider World

Harry Lustig
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Founded a century ago, the American Physical Society not only has played a leading role in advancing and diffusing knowledge and understanding of physics, but has widened its influence and importance by speaking out on public issues.

Physics and Government

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
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Physicists in Politics

Kurt Gottfried
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Through their public opposition to the nuclear arms race and human rights violations, US physicists have played a pivotal role in setting the national and international political agenda.

Archaeology of a Bookstack: Some Major Introductory Physics Texts of the Last 150 Years

Charles H. Holbrow
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Changing styles in high school and college physics texts reveal an evolution in teaching methods, but we can also see signs of the same debates that continue today.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein
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Probing of Dimensional Analysis Reveals Scaling, Sapience and a Froudean Slip

Franklin Felber, Dietrich Wolfgang Bechert, Glendon Gee, and Steven Vogel
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‘First World’ Journals Should Publish More ‘Third World’ Science

José Marín Antuña
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More on Topic of Faculty Retirement and Full Faculties

J. F. (Jim) Williams and F. Curtis Michel
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Numerical Simulation Nixed as ‘Juggling’, Reply is Planely Verse

Ermanno Pinotti and Frank Wilczek
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History of a Quantum Phase Transition Turns on a Paradigm

Alfred Gold and Allen M. Goldman
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SUNY Stony Brook is Charged with Having Verified Quasiparticle

Alfred S. Goldhaber, Jainendra K. Jain, and George C. Baldwin
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Corrections

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Phase Synchronization May Reveal Communication Pathways in Brain Activity

Richard Fitzgerald
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How is the firing of individual neurons translated into thought, sensory perception or movement? Physicists are joining the quest for answers.

Deep Under the South Pole, a Novel Telescope Records Ultrahigh‐Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Neutrinos that have escaped from the hottest cauldrons in the cosmos are being captured in 18 000‐year‐old ice.

Electron Cryomicroscopy Comes of Age

Charles Day
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Electrons make excellent probes of biological molecules—provided they don't destroy the specimen.
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Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture

Paul Lawrence Rose and Jonothan Logan, Reviewer
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Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes

Hans Christian von Baeyer and Robert H. March, Reviewer
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Tracks to Innovation: Nuclear Tracks in Science and Technology

Robert L. Fleischer and W. Peter Trower, Reviewer
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Foundations of Vacuum Science and Technology

James M. Lafferty and Lawrence G. Rubin, Reviewer
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Understanding Materials Science: History, Properties, Applications

Rolf E. Hummel and Arthur C. Gossard, Reviewer
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Advanced Stellar Astrophysics

William K. Rose and George W. Collins, II, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Test and Measurement

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Shechtman to Receive 1999 Wolf Prize in Physics

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National Academy of Sciences to Present 1999 Awards

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AAAS Honors Scientific Achievement

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Four AIP Science Writing Awards Announced

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In Brief

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David Crighton
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Conley Stutz and Beverly Williams
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Robert J. Celotta, J. William Gadzuk, and Cedric J. Powell
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Samuel Bradley Burson

Roy Ringo
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From the Archives

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Physicists Pursue Dialogue on Security and Arms Control on Indian Subcontinent

Jean Kumagai
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Germany Weighs Barring Bomb‐Grade Uranium at Research Reactor

Toni Feder
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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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