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July 2001

Volume 54, Issue 7

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Time‐Resolved Macromolecular Crystallography

Eric A. Galburt and Barry L. Stoddard
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Rapid x‐ray characterization of structure and innovative ways of initiating and controlling reactions are shedding new light on protein function by enabling the visualization of macromolecules in action.
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Diffusion on Semiconductor Surfaces

Harold J. W. Zandvliet, Bene Poelsema, and Brian S. Swartzentruber
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Atomic‐resolution imaging techniques show that a good deal of surface physics can be understood with elementary statistical mechanics, but some surprisingly complex behaviors occur even in simple systems.
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The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student

Donald G. McDonald
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John Bardeen, the leading condensed matter theorist of his day, was quite wrong when he dismissed a startling prediction by the unknown Brian Josephson.
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Physics Update

James R. Riordan, Benjamin P. Stein, and Philip F. Schewe
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Physics and National Security: Of Missiles, Mines, and Morality

Allen B. Thomson, Lisbeth Gronlund, David C. Wright, George N. Lewis, Lowell J. Burnett, Greg Root, Eric W. McFarland, and Sidney D. Drell
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NIF's Value Questioned, Affirmed

Stephen E. Bodner and Edward Moses
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Accelerator Test Facility Hosts User‐Oriented Research

Ilan Ben‐Zvi
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Radio Observatory at Maipú Completes Mission, Closes Doors

Héctor Alvarez
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Internet: Valuable Resource and Peddler

Steven Ryan, John Wheeler, and Richard Hammond
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More on Moore's Law

Alfred E. Brenner
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Seeing Atoms More Clearly

John Spence
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Correction

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Cosmic Microwave Observations Yield More Evidence of Primordial Inflation

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Whether you look at relics from three minutes after the Big Bang or from 400 000 years later, you find the same meager value for the cosmic abundance of ordinary matter.
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Feedback Tames Chaotic Surface Chemistry

Charles Day
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With a single parameter as a tiller, surface scientists can steer a model catalyst away from chaos toward regimes of regular, repeating behavior.
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Magnetic Forces Need Not Apply: Bose–Einstein Condensates Can Be Made in an Optical Trap

Barbara Goss Levi
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Researchers have found a way to make a BEC that is quicker, possibly simpler—and applicable to a wider variety of atoms.
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Solid Acids Show Potential for Fuel Cell Electrolytes

Richard Fitzgerald
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Solid acids can have high proton conductivities. Recent experiments demonstrate that they may be sufficiently stable to form the core of new, higher efficiency fuel cells.
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Scrounging Old Equipment for New Experiments

Toni Feder
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Word of mouth is the best bet for scrounging scientific equipment.
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Atlas Lugged from Los Alamos to Nevada

Toni Feder
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Nations Tackle Nuclear Terrorist Threat

Paul Guinnessy
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Lax controls on nuclear materials and a thriving black market are alarming officials.
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Bush Sends Mixed Science Signals

Jim Dawson
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News Notes

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology. Volume 1–3

George B. Benedek, Felix M. H. Villars, and Russell K. Hobbie, Reviewer
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Statistical Physics: Statics, Dynamics, and Renormalization

Leo P. Kadanoff and Paul C. Martin, Reviewer
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Making Waves: Stories from My Life

Yakov Alpert and Norman J. Zabusky, Reviewer
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Cosmological Inflation and Large‐Scale Structure

Andrew R. Liddle, David H. Lyth, and Ruth A. Daly, Reviewer
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Introduction to General Relativity

Gerard 't Hooft and Donald Marolf, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Vacuum Technology

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AGU Bestows Honors in Boston

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National Science Board, NSF Give Awards

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RAS Names Winners

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National Academy Elects New Members

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In Brief

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Marcus Laurence Elwin ‘Mark’ Oliphant

Richard H. Dalitz
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Joseph Weber

Gaurang B. Yodh and Richard F. Wallis
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Teijo Erik Vilhelm Åberg

Bernd Crasemann
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Samuel Newton Foner

Kishin Moorjani
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Stanley Kronenberg

George Brucker and Carl Accardo
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Louis Leprince‐Ringuet

Maurice Jacob
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Harold Walter Lewis

Horst Meyer, Edward G. Bilpuch, and Eugen Merzbacher
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Emanuel Maxwell

Robert Meservey and David R. Kelland
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John Wilder Tukey

Gordon Sande
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