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May 1999

Volume 52, Issue 5

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Select this Article		Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Quantum Wires Cees Dekker


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Select this Article		One Hundred Years of Astronomy in America


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Select this Article		A Continuous Model of Computation Joseph F. Traub


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein


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LETTERS

Select this Article		US Can Begin Cutting its Tritium Needs and Nuclear Arsenal Without STARTing Charles Ferguson and Frank von Hippel


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Select this Article		V. Bush as Computer Visionary: Was Role Key or Only Memex? Philip M. Smith, Ronald N. Bracewell, and Jessica Wang


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Select this Article		Atmospheric Electric Field is too Small for Humans to Feel Hans Dolezalek


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Select this Article		More on History of Applied Correlated‐Photon Metrology Duane H. Jaecks and Alan Migdall


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Select this Article		Faculty Retirement Has a FERP Piece to Go in California Frederick P. Cranston


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Select this Article		Use of Engineering Options Could Aid and Abet Physics Majors Kodali V. Rao


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Select this Article		Ex‐PRL Editor Wonders Whether Solo Authors Are Still Singular George L. Trigg


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Select this Article		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		At Last We Have an Undisputed Observation of ‘Direct’ CP Violation in Kaon Decay Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Spherical Torus May Improve Tokamak Cost and Performance Gloria B. Lubkin


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		Baltimore Meeting to Focus on Optoelectronics and Laser Science


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Select this Article		Crystallographers to Meet in Buffalo This Month


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford, and Maurice Goldhaber, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Quantum Mechanics Eugen Merzbacher and Daniel Greenberger, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Classical Dynamics: A Contemporary Approach Jorge V. José, Eugene J. Saletan, and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Defining Years in Nuclear Physics: 1932–1960s Milorad Mladjenović and Herman Feshbach, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Electrical Nature of Storms Donald R. MacGorman, W. David Rust, and Earle R. Williams, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Foundations of Modern Cosmology John F. Hawley, Katherine A. Holcomb, and Paul R. Shapiro, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Lasers Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Franklin Institute Presents Awards


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Select this Article		ASA Presents Awards at Meeting in Berlin


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Ronald Geballe Kenneth Clark, Ernest Henley, and Gordon Dunn


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Select this Article FREE		Otto Friedrich Häusser K. Peter Jackson and Erich W. Vogt


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Select this Article FREE		Nikolai Ivanovich Koroteev Sergey N. Bagayev, Victor N. Zadkov, Tony F. Heinz, and Erich P. Ippen


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Select this Article FREE		John Marshall Jr Harry Dreicer


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Select this Article FREE		Grigory Ezekielevich Pikus Walter Kohn, Alexei Efros, Emmanuel Rashba, and Eugine Ivchenko


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		At APS Centennial, Past Presidential Science Advisers Recall Some Pleasures and Pains of a Fretful Job Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Backgrounds of Eight Former Presidential Science Advisers Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		In a Tight Academic Job Market, Union Activism Grows Among Graduate Students Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		DOE Opens WIPP for Nuclear Waste Burial Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Physicist Wins Religion Prize Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Synchrotron Gets Green Light in Canada 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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