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February 2000

Volume 53, Issue 2

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The Road to the Neutrino

Allan Franklin
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It took experimenters three decades to convince themselves that the β‐decay spectrum really is continuous. Then, to save conservation of energy, Pauli had to invent the neutrino.
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Negative Pressures and Cavitation in Liquid Helium

Humphrey Maris and Sebastien Balibar
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When subjected to intense sound waves, liquids can be stretched until they break and gas bubbles appear.
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Physicists Triumph at Guess My Number

Andrew M. Steane and Wim van Dam
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Quantum entanglement looks like telepathy when three physicists get together on a game show.
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Physics Update

Stephen G. Benka and Philip F. Schewe
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Brainwashed by Feynman?

Philip W. Anderson
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Debate on Oppenheimer's Role in Manhattan Project Reaches Critical Stage

Timothy L. Karpin, James W. Osborn, Jack Steinberger, and Lawrence Cranberg
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Does H0 Play Role in Universe Like h Does in Atomic Domain?

Maurice T. Raiford
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Materials Science Needs and Is Getting Quantitative Methods

Gerd Ceder and Jerzy Bernholc
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More on History of P, CP, T Violation in Strong Interactions

Ivan Schmidt, Dmitri Kharzeev, Robert Pisarski, and Michel Tytgat
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Creating and Characterizing Individual Molecular Bonds with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Charles Day
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Experiments offer the promise of controlling chemical reactions molecule by molecule.
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Researchers Perform Quite a Magic Trick: Making Nickel‐48 Materialize

Barbara Goss Levi
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48Ni has so many more protons than neutrons that it ought to fall apart, but it is stabilized by having just the right number of both nucleons to form closed shells.
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Galileo Flyby Discovers Immense Lava Fountain on a Jovian Moon

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Minneapolis Will Host the APS March Meeting

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Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science

Diana Kormos Barkan and Helge Kragh, Reviewer
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Greenhouse: The 200‐Year Story of Global Warming

Gale E. Christianson and Mark Battle, Reviewer
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The American Astronomical Society's First Century

David H. DeVorkin and Morton S. Roberts, Reviewer
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The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity

Fred Adams, Greg Laughlin, and Joseph I. Silk, Reviewer
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The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life

Werner R. Loewenstein and Robert H. Austin, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Magnetism

Lawrence G. Rubin
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APS to Bestow Honors at March Meeting

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In Brief

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Henry Way Kendall

Kurt Gottfried and Jerome Friedman
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Stanley Geschwind

Larry Walker and Yako Yafet
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Washington briefings

Irwin Goodwin
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Trans‐Alps Neutrino Beam Gets CERN Go‐Ahead

Toni Feder
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Korean Neutrino Observatory Axed

Toni Feder
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In Brief

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Middle East Synchrotron Project Moves Ahead

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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