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November 2005

Volume 58, Issue 11

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Einstein's Mistakes

Steven Weinberg
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Science sets itself apart from other paths to truth by recognizing that even its greate practitioners sometimes err.

Transforming Physics Education

Carl Wieman and Katherine Perkins
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By using the tools of physics in their teaching, instructors can move students from mindless memorization to understanding and appreciation.

Superconducting Circuits and Quantum Information

J. Q. You and Franco Nori
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Superconducting circuits can behave like atoms making transitions between two levels. Such circuits can test quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales and be used to conduct atomic‐physics experiments on a silicon chip.
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Physics Update

Phil Schewe and Stephen G. Benka
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The Master of Dispersion

Daniel Kleppner
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Feynman: The Lectures and the Man

Jeff Hecht, Alan Harris, Swapan Chattopadhyay, Vicente Aboites, and Michael F. Shlesinger
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Calutron Revisited

Henry F. Ivey, Ned S. Rasor, Woodlief Thomas, Jr., and William Parkins
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Albert Einstein to Hedi and Max Born

Albert Einstein
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Charge to the Astro Brigade

Robert L. Dewar
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First Identification of Host Galaxies for Short Gamma‐Ray Bursts

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The long search for observational evidence of the sources of a particularly puzzling class of gamma‐ray bursts has at last borne fruit. The new evidence suggests that short‐duration GRBs are caused by mergers of neutron stars and black holes.

Order Parameter of the Chiral Potts Model Succumbs at Last to Exact Solution

Charles Day
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Exact solutions are prized because they can be used to compare theory with simulation and experiment without ambiguity. Finding them has sometimes proved arduous.
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Science Community Rallies to Aid Students and Researchers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina

Toni Feder
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What will it take for devastated Gulf Coast universities to get back on their feet?
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US Is Creating a Virtual Library to Help Restore Iraqi Science

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Scientists working in the US State and Defense departments are championing a program intended to reconnect the once‐vibrant Iraqi science community with researchers around the globe.

Turkey Turns War Death into Peaceful Purpose

Toni Feder
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Historic Yerkes Observatory Is for Sale

Toni Feder
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World's Fastest Supercomputers Open to Academia

Paul Guinnessy
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Science Fellows Enter World of Policy, Politics

Jim Dawson
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News Notes

Toni Feder and Jim Dawson
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Being True to Our Own Imaginations

Gregory Benford
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, and John S. Rigden, Reviewer
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Quantum Field Theory of Many‐Body Systems: From the Origin of Sound to an Origin of Light and Electrons

Xiao‐Gang Wen and Matthew Fisher, Reviewer
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Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe

Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill, and Emil Mottola, Reviewer
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The Physics of Traffic: Empirical Freeway Pattern Features, Engineering Applications, and Theory

Boris S. Kerner and Henry Lieu, Reviewer
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The Magnetic Universe: Geophysical and Astrophysical Dynamo Theory

G. Rüdiger, R. Hollerbach, and Russell M. Kulsrud, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Vacuum and Cryogenics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Edwards, Lee Win Dirac Medal

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Majkrzak, Berman Receive ACA Awards

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AAPT Honors Four

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AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Bestows Prizes

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In Brief

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Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh

Peter Mikhalevsky, Oleg Godin, Konstantine Naugolnykh, and Nikolai Dubrovsky
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Katherine Austin Lathrop

Robert N. Beck
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Gen Shirane

John D. Axe, Robert J. Birgeneau, Martin Blume, and Stephen M. Shapiro
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John Michael Ziman

John Enderby
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