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September 1999

Volume 52, Issue 9

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Radiation Risk and Ethics

Zbigniew Jaworowski
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The established worldwide practice of protecting people from radiation costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year to implement and may well determine the world's future energy system. But is it right?

Computational Materials Science: The Era of Applied Quantum Mechanics

Jerzy Bernholc
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The properties of new and artificially structured materials can be predicted and explained entirely by computations, using atomic numbers as the only input.

I. I. Rabi As Educator and Science Warrior

Gerald Holton
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Rabi the educator argued passionately for science as an integral component of our culture. For Rabi the statesman, Benjamin Franklin was the figure in American history most worthy of emulation.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe and Stephen G. Benka
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Why Do They Leave Physics?

Philip W. Anderson
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Proponents of Colliding Cosmologies Take Exotic Turns

David M. Smith, C. Sivaram, Geoffrey Burbridge, Fred Hoyle, and JAYANT V. NARL1KAR
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Cosmology Addendum: A Turner for the Better and a Web Cite

Andreas Albrecht
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Dual‐Career Couples Can Trouble Students

Robert E. Dennis, Laurie McNeil, and Marc Sher
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Oppie's Reputation as Leader is Questioned

Lawrence Cranberg
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Rejection Slips Stem From Poor Refereeing

Brian K. Ridley
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Industry Can Play Key Roles re Professional MS Degree Programs

Stephen Gregory, Lynde Ritzow, and Adolph B. Amster
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More on Correlated‐Photon Metrology

Mike Gruntman
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On Experiment and Theory, Eddington Really is the Limit

J. S. Shiner
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Editor's Note

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Bose Condensates Produce Coherent Nonlinear Behavior

Gloria B. Lubkin
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The coherence of the condensate gives rise to four‐wave mixing or perhaps superradiance.

Alpha Radiation Can Damage DNA Even When It Misses the Cell Nucleus

Charles Day
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An alpha‐particle microbeam that can precisely irradiate specific parts of cells is being used to investigate radiation‐induced genetic mutations.

Lasing Demonstrated in Tiny Cavities Made with Photonic Crystals

Barbara Goss Levi
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Researchers are moving closer to the goal of using photonic bandgap structures to make new, flexible, optical devices.

Adaptive Optics at the New 8‐Meter Gemini Telescope

Bertram Schwarzschild
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AVS to Meet in Seattle in October

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American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War

Jessica Wang and Robert H. March
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Rayleigh‐Bénard Convection: Structures and Dynamics

A. V. Getling and Edward A. Spiegel
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Nonlinear Optics: Basic Concepts

Douglas L. Mills and Richard R. Freeman, Reviewer
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Galaxy Formation

Malcolm S. Longair and Matthias Steinmetz, Reviewer
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Physics of the Space Environment

Tamas I. Gombosi and Gordon D. Holman, Reviewer
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Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy

Philip R. Bunker, Per Jensen, and Christian Jungen, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AAPM Honors Achievements in Medical Physics

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Robert Fred Mozley

Walter Toki and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
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James Albert Phillips

Don A. Baker and Robert F. Gribble
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Rebecca Anne Wood Elson

David J. Helfand and Gerry F. Gilmore
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Jeffrey Lannin

Melton W. Cole and Paul H. Cutler
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NSF Funds Five New S&T Centers, the First New Ones in Eight Years

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Briefings

Irwin Goodwin
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To Realize Its Space Exploration Plans, ESA Must Revise Its Strategies

Toni Feder
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Physics Whizzes Quizzed in Padua

Toni Feder
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Wagner Takes DESY Reins

Toni Feder
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Physicist Tapped to Head EC Research

Toni Feder
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AIP Agrees to Lesser Role in Russian Journals

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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In Brief

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