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August 2005

Volume 58, Issue 8

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Pyroelectricity: From Ancient Curiosity to Modern Imaging Tool

Sidney B. Lang
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Changes in the net dipole moment of certain materials form the basis for a broad range of IR detectors.

Einstein's Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaos

A. Douglas Stone
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Chaotic systems were beyond the reach of an ingenious coordinate‐invariant quantization scheme developed by Albert Einstein, and to this day, their quantization remains a challenge.

Polarized Gamma‐Ray Beams

Carlo Schaerf
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Polarized high‐energy photons are excellent probes of protons, neutrons, and nuclei. Nowadays they are readily made by shining laser light at a high‐energy electron beam.
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Physics Update

Phillip G. Schewe, Stephen G. Benka, Charles Day, and Harvey Leifert
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Validating the Need to Validate Code

Thomas P. Sheahen, Craig Bolon, Rudolf Eigenmann, Josip Loncaric, Bob Eisenberg, R. Casanova Alig, Denes Marton, Douglass E. Post, and Lawrence G. Votta
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Comments on the Culture of the Force

Ramamurthy Ravi, Brent Meeker, John Ralston, and Frank Wilczek
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Albert Einstein to Max Born

Albert Einstein
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Black‐Hole Physics in an Electromagnetic Waveguide

Steven K. Blau
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By rapidly changing the dielectric constant in part of the guide, one can create mode‐trapping horizons and an analogue of Hawking radiation.

Supernova Spectral Feature Addresses the Connection with Gamma‐Ray Bursts

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Evidence is growing that gamma‐ray bursts are generated by relativistic jets of material ejected from atypically massive and energetic supernovae flattened by high spin.
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Evolution Wars Show No Sign of Abating

Jim Dawson
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Scientists have been fighting creationists and intelligent‐design advocates on school boards and in state legislatures, the courts, and even the Smithsonian Institution.

GE Makes High‐Profile Pledge to Green Up

Toni Feder
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From fluorescent light bulbs to power stations, General Electric is betting on profits from energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly products.

Deal Puts ITER in Europe, Compensates Japan

Toni Feder
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US Nanotech Program Strong, but International Race Is On

Jim Dawson
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NIF Threatened with Closure

Paul Guinnessy
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Women Unite to Improve Physics Culture

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Toni Feder and Paul Guinnessy
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Zeldovich: Reminiscences

R. A. Sunyaev and Gennady Gorelik, Reviewer
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Fundamentals of Seismic Wave Propagation

Chris Chapman and Barbara Romanowicz, Reviewer
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Rubber and Rubber Balloons: Paradigms of Thermodynamics

I. Müller, P. Strehlow, and Michael Marder, Reviewer
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Equilibrium and Non‐Equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics

Michel Le Bellac, Fabrice Mortessagne, G. George Batrouni, and Amador Muriel, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Heilmeier to Receive Kyoto Prize

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In Brief

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Asher Peres

Joseph E. Avron, Charles H. Bennett, Ady Mann, and William K. Wootters
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Dietrich Wolfgang Bechert

Peter A. Monkewitz
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Martin Jacob Berger

Stephen M. Seltzer and Mitio Inokuti
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Charles Hosea Braden

David R. Finkelstein, Ronald F. Fox, James R. Stevenson, and Henry S. Valk
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John Roderick Cameron

Charles Mistretta, Paul DeLuca, James Sorenson, Larry DeWerd, and James Zagzebski
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Piet Cornelis Gugelot

Willem T. H. van Oers, Charles F. Perdrisat, and Hans J. Weber
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Richard Guy Helmer

Charles W. Reich and Robert J. Gehrke
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Daniel Joseph Zaffarano

Clayton A. Swenson and John R. Clem
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