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February 2001

Volume 54, Issue 2

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Superfluid Helium Droplets: An Ultracold Nanolaboratory

J. Peter Toennies, Andrej F. Vilesov, and K. Birgitta Whaley
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The unique environment in liquid helium droplets opens up new opportunities for molecular spectroscopy and for probing superfluid phenomena on the atomic scale.
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Physics for Profit and Fun

John F. Waymouth
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Developing products for industry can be intellectually challenging and financially rewarding, but it's not without its frustrations.
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Wolfgang Pauli

Karl von Meyenn and Engelbert Schucking
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Max Born thought that Pauli was, perhaps, an even greater scientist than Einstein. “But he was a completely different type of man,” wrote Born, “who, in my eyes, did not attain Einstein's greatness.”
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A Remembrance of Pauli in 1950

Roy Glauber
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Physics Update

Benjamin P. Stein and Philip F. Schewe
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What's Wrong with These Questions?

N. David Mermin
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Internet as Teacher: Is it a Virtual Improvement?

Richard Hammond
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Causal Discussion of Superluminal Pulses

Peter W. Milonni
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Origin of 21‐Micron Emission Feature Is a Mystery

Sun Kwok and Bruce J. Hrivnak
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Does Religion Prize Mislead Scientists?

Mark Friesel
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Szilard Endorsed Nuclear Medicine by Example

Allen D. Allen
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Binary Quasicrystals Discovered That Are Stable and Icosahedral

Charles Day
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You don't need three chemical elements to make thermodynamically stable quasicrystals. Two will do.
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Hydrodynamics May Explain Like‐Charge Colloidal Attraction

Richard Fitzgerald
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As two like‐charged particles are repelled by a nearby charged wall, the resulting fluid flow can make them move toward each other.
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New Printing Technologies Raise Hopes for Cheap Plastic Electronics

Barbara Goss Levi
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Inkjets and rubber stamps just might replace expensive photolithography steps in the printing of polymer circuits. If so, we may one day read our newspapers off reloadable, flexible plastic sheets.
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California Seeds Science Institutes with $300 Million

Toni Feder
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New nanoscience, wireless communications, and quantitative biology institutes are intended to forge collaboration among scientific disciplines and with industry, as well as fuel California's future economy.
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Some Physicists Urge Changes in DOE Science

Jim Dawson
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A group of leading physicists say physical sciences aren't properly recognized or supported by federal government policy‐makers.
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ESA Taps Southwood as Science Chief, Sets Missions

Toni Feder
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Seestrom Is First Woman to Lead Los Alamos Physics

Toni Feder
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CERN Energetically Probes the Arts

Lynley Hargreaves
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News Notes

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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A Busy March Meeting Is Brewing in Seattle

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India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation

George Perkovich and George W. Rathjens, Reviewer
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Quantum Phase Transitions

Subir Sachdev and Matthew P. A. Fisher, Reviewer
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Laser Cooling and Trapping

Harold J. Metcalf, Peter van der Straten, and David Scott Weiss, Reviewer
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Reduced Density Matrices: Coulson's Challenge

A. J. Coleman, V. I. Yukalov, and Brian R. Judd, Reviewer
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Rutherford: Scientist Supreme

John Campbell and Samuel Devons, Reviewer
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Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers

David H. DeVorkin and Gale E. Christianson, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Magnetics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Scientists, Technical Innovators Win Medals of Science and Technology

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Dresselhaus to be Honored by AIP

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APS Presents Awards at March Meeting

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Morris Is OSA Vice President

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In Brief

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John Paul Blewett

Ernest D. Courant
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Toyoichi Tanaka

George B. Benedek, Mehran Kardar, and J. David Litster
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Leon Madansky

Yung K. Lee, Thomas Fulton, and Gordon Feldman
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Virgilio Beltrán‐López

Jose Jiménez‐Mier, Eugenio Ley‐Koo, and Jens Zorn
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