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March 2003

Volume 56, Issue 3

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Magnesium Diboride: Better Late than Never

Paul C. Canfield and George W. Crabtree
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With a superconducting transition temperature of 40 K and two superconducting gaps, MgB2 is full of surprises for both experimentalists and theorists.
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Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix

Lynne Osman Elkin
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Although she made essential contributions toward elucidating the structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin is known to many only as seen through the distorting lens of James Watson's book, The Double Helix.

Low‐Energy Electron Microscopy: Imaging Surface Dynamics

Raymond J. Phaneuf and Andreas K. Schmid
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Flexibility and time resolution make LEEM a powerful tool for studying mesoscale phenomena—from surface diffusion to magnetization.
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Physics Update

Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordan
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Goethe and Land Provoke Colorful Comments

Gerald T. Davidson and Gerald S. Wasserman
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Workshops Work for High‐School Physics Teachers

John W. Dooley
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Funding and Operating University Reactors

Donald R. Harris and Timothy H. Trumbull
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Models for Gamma‐Ray Bursts

Jonathan Katz
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Beautiful, Interesting Quaternions Are Valuable for Rigid Bodies

Robert D. Furber
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Another Fermi Tale

Albert A. Bartlett
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Correction

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Antineutrinos From Distant Reactors Simulate the Disappearance of Solar Neutrinos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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First results from the Kamland detector in Japan home in on the parameters of solar‐neutrino flavor oscillation.

X‐ray Observations Deepen Mystery of What Happens in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters

Charles Day
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Simple physics says huge amounts of gas in cluster cores should cool and collapse. Simple physics is wrong—but why?

Laser Technique Follows Turbulent Flow in Three Dimensions

Charles Day
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Making movies of stirred‐up beads illuminates the baffling problem of turbulence.
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Overlapping Federal Budgets Confuse the FY 2004 R&D Funding Picture

Jim Dawson
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Defense programs and physical sciences see increases in the administration's fiscal year 2004 budget proposal, but much of the rest of science funding is flat or down.

US Plans to Rejoin ITER Collaboration

Jim Dawson
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L'Oréal and UNESCO Award Women Physicists $500 000

Toni Feder
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Not just cosmetic: L'Oréal and UNESCO are rewarding five women from around the globe for their scientific contributions in crystallography, disordered materials, scaling laws of fluids and complex systems, and electron microscopy of crystals and quasicrystals.

MacArthur Pumps Funds Into Science Policy Positions

Paul Guinnessy
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Next month sees the launch of the greatest expansion of faculty positions for science, technology, and security policy since the end of the cold war.

Europe's Comet Mission Delayed

Toni Feder
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ITER Leader to Head CERN

Toni Feder
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Chaudhari to Head Brookhaven

Jim Dawson
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Canberra Fire Destroys Observatory

Paul Guinnessy
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Two Radio Telescopes Get New Directors

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder and Jim Dawson
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Integrity in Industrial Research

William F. Brinkman
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The Questions of Tenure

Richard P. Chait and David Seligman, Reviewer
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Hydrogen: The Essential Element

John S. Rigden and William Happer, Reviewer
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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks

Mark Buchanan and Maximino Aldana‐Gonzalez, Reviewer
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Linked: The New Science of Networks

Albert‐László Barabási and Maximino Aldana‐Gonzalez, Reviewer
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

Jennet Conant and Britton Chance, Reviewer
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At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD

M. Shifman and George Sterman, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Spectroscopy

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Winners Named for Wolf Prizes in Physics and Mathematics

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APS to Present Awards at April Meeting

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Geophysics Researchers Honored by AGU

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National Academy Honors Achievements

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AIP Presents Science Writing Awards

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Two Win King Faisal Science Prize

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Holonyak to Receive Top IEEE Medal

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In Brief

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George Porter

Frank A. J. L. James and David Phillips
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Tony Hoare
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Robert Edmund Apfel

Lawrence A. Crum
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Karl Leslie Brown

Wolfgang Panofsky
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Philip Gerald Drazin

Chris Budd and Howell Peregrine
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Felix Marc Hermann Villars

George Benedek and John W. Negele
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