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November 2004

Volume 57, Issue 11

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Detecting Illicit Radioactive Sources

Joseph C. McDonald, Bert M. Coursey, and Michael Carter
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Drawing on technologies from fields as diverse as space physics and nuclear medicine, scientists are fast developing instruments to search for material that terrorists might use to fashion dirty bombs or a nuclear device.
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Ethics and the Welfare of the Physics Profession

Kate Kirby and Frances A. Houle
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Responding to a survey by an APS task force on ethics, younger members of the physics community have raised significant concerns about the treatment of subordinates and about other ethical issues.
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Trust and the Future of Research

Caroline Whitbeck
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For many years, physicists were in denial that unethical conduct was a problem in their profession. But an erosion or neglect of trust and professional responsibility can threaten the research enterprise, often in subtle ways.

From the Archives: The Scientist's Code of Ethics

Wayne A. R. Leys
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The fact that a scientist spends a good deal of his time in studies from which he tries to exclude moral judgments, the author of this article points out, does not mean that the scientist and his activity will not be subject to moral judgment.
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Physics Update

Stephen Benka and Phil Schewe
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Computational Scenarios

Leo P. Kadanoff
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Long‐Term Energy Solutions: The Truth Behind the Silent Lie

Mark Meier, Douglas Davidson, Frank R. Haig, Gregory Weston, Brian Cluggish, David J. Wesolowski, David B. Goldstein, Bernard L. Cohen, Eric Swager, Caroline L. Herzenberg, William Morse, Albert A. Bartlett, and Paul Weisz
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Ben Franklin in His Own Words

Brian Sutcliffe and Dudley Herschbach
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Correction

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Solid Helium‐4 in Bulk Doesn't Go With the Flow

Steven K. Blau
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New observations of an apparent superfluid component close loopholes in an earlier experiment, but present their own set of mysteries.

New Experiments Demonstrate Quantum Optics on a Chip

Mark Wilson
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Researchers achieve coherent coupling between a superconducting quantum bit and a single microwave photon.
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Three Newly Discovered Exoplanets Have Masses Comparable to Neptune's

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Unlike Neptune and Uranus, the ice giants of our solar system, the new planets may be rocky “super‐earths.”
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Building a Cyclotron on a Shoestring

Toni Feder
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Starting when he was an undergrad,Tim Koeth built a 12‐inch cyclotron. Now he is in grad school and his creation is used in a senior‐level lab class.

LANL Resumes Work, Morale Stays Low

Toni Feder
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New Hughes Center a Biological Reflection of the Old Bell Labs

Jim Dawson
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Publishers Sue US Treasury

Toni Feder
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Bush Gives Bement NSF Nod

Jim Dawson
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News Notes

Paul Guinnessy and Jim Dawson
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Let's Revive the Study of Fluids

Ben J. Korgen
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Everything's Relative: And Other Fables From Science and Technology

Tony Rothman and Robert March, Reviewer
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Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life

Philip Nelson, Marko Radosavljević, Sarina Bromberg), and Sebastian Doniach, Reviewer
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Light‐Emitting Diodes

E. Fred Schubert and David Bour, Reviewer
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Cochlear Implants: Fundamentals and Applications

Graeme Clark and Claus‐Peter Richter, Reviewer
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The Cold Wars: A History of Superconductivity

Jean Matricon, Georges Waysand, and Michael Tinkham, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Vacuum and Cryogenics

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In Brief

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Francis Harry Compton Crick

Tomaso A. Poggio and Martino D. Poggio
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Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

Patrick H. Diamond, Marvin L. Goldberger, Roald Z. Sagdeev, and Herbert L. Berk
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Richard Bersohn

Bruce J. Berne, Louis Brus, George W. Flynn, and James J. Valentini
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Erwin Max Friedländer

Harry H. Heckman, Meinhard E. Mayer, and Richard M. Weiner
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George Edward Pake

Charles B. Duke and Charles P. Slichter
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William Hayward Pickering

John R. Casani
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