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March 2005

Volume 58, Issue 3

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A Small Puzzle from 1905

Alex Harvey and Engelbert Schucking
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In his first relativity paper, Einstein made one erroneous prediction. Although it should have been withdrawn when he generalized the theory to include gravity, the original error has received surprisingly little attention.

Extreme Nonlinear Optics: Coherent X Rays from Lasers

Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, and Ivan P. Christov
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Ultrashort laser pulses can generate even shorter bursts of coherent soft x rays. The technology now makes it possible to manipulate atoms on attosecond time scales to create designer wavefunctions.

Teaching Biological Physics

Raymond E. Goldstein, Philip C. Nelson, and Thomas R. Powers
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Biological physics courses can serve a variety of students, among them life‐sciences students who need to understand the role of physical principles in the world of biology.
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Physics Update

Phillip G. Schewe and Ben Stein
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Los Alamos Workers Debate the Lab's Safety, Morale, and Leadership

Lee McAtee, David A. Herbert, and Brad Lee Holian
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Coastline Changes from Melting Ice Sheets

Lasse A. Kivioja, Jose M. Ortiz de Zarate, Josefino Comiso, and Claire Parkinson
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Publish‐or‐Perish Postscripts

A. Jeffrey Giacomin, Michael Ibison, and Loc Vu‐Quoc
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Georg Rumer: A Microbiography

Vladimir Zelevinsky
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Albert Einstein to His Son Hans Albert

Albert Einstein
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Illumination on Noctilucent Clouds

Ulf‐Peter Hoppe
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Correction

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X‐Ray Absorption Lines Probe the Missing Half of the Cosmic Baryon Population

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Cosmologists believe that half of all ordinary matter in the present epoch is hidden as a web of highly ionized intergalactic gas. An x‐ray analog of the Lyman α forest of redshifted ultraviolet absorption lines promises to reveal that missing matter.

A New Look at Electrons in Water Clusters Solves a Longstanding Riddle

Steven K. Blau
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Influenced by cluster size and temperature, an electron can attach to the surface or be trapped internally.

What's Making Earth Hum?

Barbara Goss Levi
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New evidence suggests that winter storms over the oceans provide the energy that sets Earth freely oscillating at its fundamental frequencies.
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Undergraduates Assemble Neutron Detector

Toni Feder
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Spreading the construction of a detector across several institutions brings project visibility to participants.

Missing Magazines Highlight Staff Distrust of Los Alamos Management

Paul Guinnessy
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After an annus horribilis at Los Alamos, the atmosphere at the lab is still uneasy.

¡Viva la Física!

Steven K. Blau
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Windy Island Hosts Energy Trial

Toni Feder
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US High‐Tech Economy Slipping

Jim Dawson
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Entrepreneur Launches Low‐Cost Space Rockets

Paul Guinnessy
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US Students Retain Middle‐of‐the‐Pack Status

Jim Dawson
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News Notes

Betram Schwarzchild, Jim Dawson, and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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A Nontrivial Manifesto

Matt Landreman
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APS March Meeting in Los Angeles

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Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy

David Lindley and Curtis Wilson, Reviewer
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Atomic Physics: An Exploration Through Problems and Solutions

Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Kimball, David P. DeMille, and Steve K. Lamoreaux, Reviewer
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Game Physics

David H. Eberly and W. Lewis Johnson, Reviewer
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Nanophotonics

Paras N. Prasad and Larry Dalton, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Spectroscopy

Lawrence G. Rubin
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APS Hands Out Awards at March Meeting

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AIP Honors Lederman with Compton Medal

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Macosko Honored Twice by SoR

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Marrian Is AVS President‐Elect

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Bryce Seligman DeWitt

David Deutsch, Christopher Isham, and Gregory Vilkovisky
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Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield

Elizabeth C. Beckmann
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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Don Brownlee and Paul Hodge
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David Mervyn Blow

Alice Vrielink
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Jack Emerson Crow

Robert P. Guertin and J. Robert Schrieffer
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Rolfe Eldridge Glover III

Richard A. Ferrell, Christopher J. Lobb, and Michael Tinkham
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William Westerfield Havens Jr

Harry Lustig
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