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March 2002

Volume 55, Issue 3

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The Puzzle of Global Sea‐Level Rise

Bruce C. Douglas and W. Richard Peltier
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Measuring the rate of sea level rise over the past century requires modeling the behavior of Earth's crust over the past 20 000 years.

Surface Acoustic Waves in Materials Science

Peter Hess
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Laser‐generated surface waves provide new tools for studying material properties, from linear elastic behavior to fracture.
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A Personal Reflection on University Research Funding

Howard K. Birnbaum
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A veteran researcher in materials science and engineering argues that research funding needs reform at both the university and funding‐agency levels.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Richard J. Fitzgerald
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Physics First, Because the Atom Unlocks Science

Henry Blumenfeld and Leon Lederman
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Teller ‘Exiled’ Himself for Science

Maria Ronay and Hans A. Bethe
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‘Pipeline’ Provides Physicists with Flexibility

Kurt T. Bachmann, Kate Kirby, Roman Czujko, Patrick Mulvey, and Barrett Ripin
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Science in Franco's Spain

Julio Gonzalo
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Fano Footnote

Jorrit de Boer
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Corrections

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Warm Bedrock Forms Water beneath Rapidly Moving Ice Stream in Central Greenland

Charles Day
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New measurements hint at the presence of a volcano underneath the Greenland ice sheet.

From Superfluid to Insulator: Bose–Einstein Condensate Undergoes a Quantum Phase Transition

Barbara Goss Levi
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The atoms in a BEC assemble gregariously into a coherent whole, but in a periodic potential that's sufficiently strong, they can separate into an array of isolated atoms.

Ultracold Neutrons Exhibit Quantum States in the Earth's Gravitational Field

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Quantization imposes a lower limit on the energy of a neutron trapped in a gravitational potential well.

An Energy Recovery Linac Is Seen as a Bright Idea

Barbara Goss Levi
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Will some future light sources be based on linear accelerators rather than synchrotron storage rings?
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MIT Media Lab Spawns International Offshoots

Toni Feder
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Famed for its fun, quirky, high‐tech research and for zipping together industry and academia, the MIT Media Lab is expanding at home and abroad.
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Math and Science Suffer in Education Bill

Jim Dawson
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The hundreds of millions of federal dollars that in past years supported training of elementary school math and science teachers have been redirected into new math and science partnerships, and the result may be less money for the teachers.

Neutrino Detector Lab Looking Good

Jim Dawson
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Powerful NMR Machines Debut in US

Paul Guinnessy
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Bohr Letters Clarify Mystery

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Kavli Endows ITP

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Anthony Tweed, Jim Dawson, and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science

Robert Marc Friedman and Helge Kragh, Reviewer
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Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton

Jonathon Howard and Alex Mogilner, Reviewer
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Elements of Modern X‐ray Physics

Jens Als‐Nielsen, Des McMorrow, and Ian Robinson, Reviewer
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Positron Physics

M. Charlton, J. W. Humberston, and Allen P. Mills, Jr, Reviewer
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Photonics: Linear and Nonlinear Interactions of Laser Light and Matter

Ralf Menzel and Elsa M. Garmire, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Spectroscopy

Lawrence G. Rubin
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One‐Time Wolfgang Paul Award Presented

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Society of Rheology Prizes Given

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APS to Present Awards in Albuquerque

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Eighteen Scientists Garner IOP Prizes

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Kroemer Wins IEEE Medal of Honor

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Davis Is New ACA Vice President

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In Brief

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John Ralph Apel

Donald J. Williams and Richard F. Gasparovic
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Paul Falk‐Vairant

Maurice Jacob
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Peter Mazur

Dick Bedeaux and Irwin Oppenheim
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Robert Alexander Mendelson Jr

Paul M. G. Curmi and Deborah Bennett Stone
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Rein Silberberg

Maurice M. Shapiro and Chen Hsiang Tsao
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Robert Allen Sparks

Susan K. Byram and Jenny P. Glusker
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Thomas Howard Stix

Nathaniel J. Fisch and Robert J. Goldston
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