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June 2002

Volume 55, Issue 6

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Enrico Fermi in Rome, 1931–32

Hans A. Bethe and Henry Bethe
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A Nobel laureate recalls the two semesters he spent as a postdoctoral fellow with the boys of Via Panisperna, led by the young Enrico Fermi.

Enrico Fermi and Quantum Electrodynamics, 1929–32

Silvan S. Schweber
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A review article that Fermi wrote in 1932 taught an entire generation of physicists how to think about quantum electrodynamic effects in atomic phenomena.
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Enrico Fermi in America

Valentine L. Telegdi
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Fermi emigrated surreptitiously from fascist Italy by way of Stockholm, where he received the 1938 Nobel Prize. A few days after his arrival in America came the portentous news of uranium fission.

An Excursion with Enrico Fermi, 14 July 1954

Roy Glauber
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Rising above it all in the French Alps, four colleagues had an adventurous afternoon.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, Charles Day, and Stephen G Benka
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Journals' Online Access Costs Are a Shared Burden

Joaquim Fort, Martin Blume, and Marc H. Brodsky
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Subaru is Public, Too

Catherine Ishida
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Antiferromagnetism Questions Asked and Answered

Robert V. Mulkern, Jacques Friedel, and Ralph Moon
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Probability of Good Beer in Denmark

Robert Fleck
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Numerus Clausus Led to Hungarian Exodus in 1920s

Paul Roman and Brian Sutin
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Statistical Mechanics May Have Dynamic Future

Yu L. Khait
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Correction

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Two Realization Schemes Raise Hopes for Superconducting Quantum Bits

Richard Fitzgerald
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Researchers have extended by two orders of magnitude the time over which two‐state superconducting systems maintain phase coherence.

Slowly but Steadily, Fermilab Pushes the Upgraded Tevatron toward Its Design Goals

Barbara Goss Levi
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The lab is confident that its revamped accelerator, although currently behind schedule, will produce proton‐antiproton collisions at the promised rate.
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Science Board Says US Leadership in R&D Strong, but Faces Growing Foreign Competition

Jim Dawson
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Federal funding of life sciences at the expense of basic research in the physical sciences and engineering could eventually erode the premier position of US science.

Stellarator Fusion Gets a New Look

Toni Feder
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Symmetry has rekindled interest in stellarators as a possible path to fusion energy.

House Legislation Calls for Doubling NSF Budget

Jim Dawson
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Watson Dumped from Climate Panel

Paul Guinnessy
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Charpak, Garwin Propose Unit for Radiation Dose

Toni Feder
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Nevada Issues Atomic License Plate

Paul Guinnessy
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Juzaitis Withdraws as Candidate for LLNL Directorship

Jim Dawson
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News Notes

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Intelligent Design Is Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo

Adrian L. Melott
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Philosophy Is Essential to the Intelligent Design Debate

Mano Singham
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Biological Micro‐ and Nanotribology: Nature's Solutions

Matthias Scherge, Stanislav N. Gorb, and Howard A. Stone, Reviewer
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The Coming of Materials Science

Robert W. Cahn and David A. Weitz, Reviewer
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Theory of Itinerant Electron Magnetism

Jürgen Kübler and Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo, Reviewer
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Neutron Interferometry: Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics

Helmut Rauch, Samuel A. Werner, and Jeffrey W. Lynn, Reviewer
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The Structure of the Nucleon

Anthony W. Thomas, Wolfram Weise, and Gordon Baym, Reviewer
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Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Govind P. Agrawal and Hermann A. Haus, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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London Prize to be Presented in Japan

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NAS Honors Achievements

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Canadian Research Institute Honors Young Scientists

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NAE Elects New Members

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In Brief

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Richard Edward Honig

Bryan L. Bentz and P. Jane Gale
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Robert Lawrence Jepsen

John C. Helmer, Marcel W. Muller, Sherman Rutherford, and Ira Weissman
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Lester Machta

John Miller, Jim Angell, and Dian Seidel
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Philip Edward Seiden

Praveen Chaudhari, Franco Celada, Bruce G. Elmegreen, and Martin Weigert
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Eric Thomas Swartz

Lawrence G. Rubin
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