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October 2000

Volume 53, Issue 10

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Szilard as Inventor: Accelerators and More

Valentine L. Telegdi
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In his Berlin and London days between the world wars, Leo Szilard thought about household refrigerators and nuclear chain reactions. He also invented many of the central features of the accelerators that would take the study of nuclear and particle physics to high energies.
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Blue Diode Lasers

Noble M. Johnson, Arto V. Nurmikko, and Steven P. DenBaars
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Layered light‐emitting heterostructures based on gallium nitride are quite different from their gallium arsenide cousins. Empirical development is advancing rapidly, and fundamental understanding is struggling to catch up.
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Physics in Latin America Comes of Age

José Luis Morán‐López
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In just over 50 years, the physics community throughout Latin America has grown to include advanced education programs, major research facilities, and industrial development. An aggressive program for science and technology may lead to a flourishing epoch in the next century.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe and Stephen G. Benka
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Entropy Revisited, Gorilla and All

David Siminovitch, Peter T. Landsberg, Allen Nussbaum, Richard H. Tourin, Benjamin Crowell, Elliott H. Lieb, and Jakob Yngvason
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Optimal Vision: Blurring and Aliasing

Friedrich O. Huck, Carl L. Fales, and Donald T. Miller
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Moore's Law and the Future of Computing

Igor Fodor and Stan Williams
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Unseen Strangeness in the Proton

Veljko Dmitrašinović
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Correction

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The Tau Neutrino Has Finally Been Seen. Has the Higgs also been Seen?

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The existence of the third neutrino was hardly in doubt. But it took the sub‐micron precision and electronic sophistication of a modern photo‐emulsion target to find the decay of its telltale collision product.
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Dendritic Signals Start Out Stronger When They Have Farther to Go

Charles Day
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Without a way to compensate for leaking charge, neurons wouldn't be able to receive their most distant inputs.
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Grain Boundary Doping May Improve High‐Temperature Superconducting Wire

Richard Fitzgerald
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Stacking layers of pure and calcium‐doped YBa2Cu3O7−δ increases the coupling between the superconducting grains without sacrificing the transition temperature.
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Antiproton Research Resumes at CERN

Barbara Goss Levi
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Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light

Max Born, Emil Wolf, and Eugene Hecht, Reviewer
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Allen's Astrophysical Quantities

Arthur N. Cox and Catherine A. Pilachowski, Reviewer
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

Robert L. Park and Kendrick Frazier, Reviewer
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Supersymmetry: Squarks, Photinos, and the Unveiling of the Ultimate Laws of Nature

Gordon Kane and Kenneth D. Lane, Reviewer
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The Discovery of Anti‐matter: The Autobiography of Carl David Anderson, the Youngest Man to Win the Nobel Prize

Richard J. Weiss and Laurie M. Brown, Reviewer
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A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives

Louis Brown and Robert H. March, Reviewer
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Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

Haraldur Sigurdsson, Bruce F. Houghton, Stephen R. McNutt, Hazel Rymer, John Stix, and Alexander R. McBirney, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Semiconductor Technology

Lawrence G. Rubin
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New Cosmology Prize Honors Two

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Seven Individuals Honored by ASA

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AIP Recognizes Achievements in Science Writing

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OSA Honors Contributions to Optics

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Georgi, Pati, Quinn Receive Dirac Medal

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In Brief


See Also: Erratum

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John Clive Ward

Richard H. Dalitz and Frank J. Duarte
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Nicholas Constantine Metropolis

Nandor L. Balazs, John C. Browne, James D. Louck, and Daniel S. Strottman
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George Abraham Snow

Joseph Sucher and Nicholas Hadley
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Bernard M. Abraham

Yakov Eckstein, John Ketterson, and Irving Klotz
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Alexander Il'ich Akhiezer

Viktor G. Baryakhtar, Moisey I. Kaganov, and Grigory Ya. Lyubarsky
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Christoph Heiden

Alex Braginski, John Clarke, and Michael Mück
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Jeffrey Alan Willick

Michael A. Strauss, Stéphane Courteau, Vahé Petrosian, and Roger Romani
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Special Report: Presidential Candidates Speak Out on Science Policy

Jim Dawson
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DOE Picks Up after Fires

Toni Feder
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Radio Astronomers Plan Mammoth Telescope

Toni Feder
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Search for Extraterrestrial Life Gets a Steady Eye

Toni Feder
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Green Bank Telescope Opens

Toni Feder
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Hawaiian Astronomy Gets New Director, Plans Expansion

Lynley Hargreaves
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Darwin Returns to Kansas

Jim Dawson
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Newton's Alma Mater Bids for His Papers

Paul Guinnessy
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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