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February 2004

Volume 57, Issue 2

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Ferroelectrets: Soft Electroactive Foams for Transducers

Siegfried Bauer, Reimund Gerhard‐Multhaupt, and Gerhard M. Sessler
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After certain cellular polymers are internally charged, they behave like soft and sensitive piezoelectrics that can be used to interconvert acoustical or mechanical signals and electrical signals.
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Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Comes of Age

Carleton DeTar and Steven Gottlieb
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Quantum chromodynamics is the elegant but notoriously intractable theory of the strong interactions. Recent advances in numerical computer simulation are beginning to reveal, in impressive detail, what the theory predicts.

Family Lines Sketched in the Portrait of Lev Landau

Ella Ryndina and Arthur Gill, Translator
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Arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist of the 20th century, Landau is intimately seen through the eyes of his loving niece in these excerpts from her memoir.

Nobel Prizes, 1962

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Lev Davidovich Landau, Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate

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A tribute by Vitaly Ginzburg

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Landau, An Interview

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Physics Update

Ben Stein, Phil Schewe, Stephen Benka, and James Riordan
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What's Wrong With This Quantum World?

N. David Mermin
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Hooke and Newton: ‘Divining’ Planetary Motions

Michael Nauenberg
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Science Miseducation in A Private Universe

Richard Conn Henry, Rustum Roy, and Michael Riordan
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SQUIDs Remain Best Tools for Measuring Brain's Magnetic Field

John P. Wikswo
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US Research and Engineering Jobs Are Moving Overseas

William Persinger
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Corrections

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CERN Experiment Finds Evidence for More Pentaquark States

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The new spectroscopy of exotic hadrons, promised by last year's discovery of the first baryon that defies description by three quarks, appears to be thriving.

New Experiments Set the Scale for the Onset of Turbulence in Pipe Flow

Richard Fitzgerald
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Measurements of the stability of laminar flow bring us closer to answering one of the biggest outstanding questions in fluid mechanics.
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Sea‐Level Rise Exacerbates Coastal Erosion

Charles Day
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A recent analysis of more than a century's worth of data forebodes severe losses of coastal land.
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Civilian R&D Sees Only Modest Increases as FY 2004 Funding Flows to Defense, Homeland Security

Jim Dawson
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Doubling the NSF budget in five years remains just a hope. Efforts by the science community to boost funding for the US Department of Energy's Office of Science generated enthusiasm, but little money.
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Muons May Unlock Secrets of Teotihuacan

Toni Feder
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If tombs are discovered in the Pyramid of the Sun, they could shed light on the governing style in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico.

South Dakota Vies for Underground Lab, Scientists Seek Backup Sites

Toni Feder
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Pass It On: Spread Physics Awareness in 2005

Toni Feder
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Proposed Tuition Sparks Marathon Physics Lecture

Paul Guinnessy
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NSF Launches Large‐Scale Network for Small‐Scale Science

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Jim Dawson and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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History of the Soviet Atomic Industry

Arkadii Kruglov and David Holloway, Reviewer
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Einstein in Berlin

Thomas Levenson and Robert Schulmann, Reviewer
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Quantum Theory of Tunneling

Mohsen Razavy and Juan Gonzalo Muga, Reviewer
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Compact Blue‐Green Lasers

William P. Risk, Timothy R. Gosnell, Arto V. Nurmikko, and Nicholas Djeu, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Test and Measurement

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Keyser Takes Helm as AAPM Director

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AAPT's Vice President for 2004 Is Heller

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Delbaere Is Elected Vice President of ACA

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In Brief

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Bertram Neville Brockhouse

Robert J. Birgeneau and Bruce D. Gaulin
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Harold Paul Furth

Nathaniel J. Fisch, T. Kenneth Fowler, Edward A. Frieman, and Robert J. Goldston
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Vernon Willard Hughes

Robert K. Adair and Michael E. Zeller
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Henri Arthur Levy

William R. Busing
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Dirk ter Haar

Frederick K. Lamb, Anthony J. Leggett, and Christopher J. Pethick
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