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December 2010

Volume 63, Issue 12

Cover: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–95) is remembered as a groundbreaking scientist, consummate intellectual, perfect gentleman, and role model to students and colleagues alike. The centennial of Chandra's birth is here celebrated with four articles: A profile of his life (Kamesh Wali, page 38); his scientific legacy (Freeman Dyson, page 44); a collection of remembrances (assembled by Bob Wald, page 49); and Chandra himself discussing beauty (page 57, reprinted from 1979). (Photo courtesy of Kameshwar Wali.)

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Select this Article		Chandra: A biographical portrait Kameshwar C. Wali

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Select this Article FREE		Chandrasekhar's role in 20th‐century science Freeman Dyson


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Select this Article		Some memories of Chandra Robert M. Wald


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Select this Article		Beauty and the quest for beauty in science S. Chandrasekhar


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Two takes on Iran sanctions William F. Katz, Toni Feder, and Khosrow Hassani

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Select this Article FREE		Notes on the Oak Ridge Pelletron Jim Adney

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Select this Article FREE		Painlevé Project on the Web Folkmar Bornemann, Peter Clarkson, Percy Deift, Alan Edelman, Alexander Its, and Daniel Lozier

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Select this Article FREE		Dirac postscript Asoke N. Mitra

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Select this Article FREE		Authors question book reviewer's fairness Michael Bordag, Galina L. Klimchitskaya, Umar Mohideen, and Vladimir M. Mostepanenko

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Select this Article FREE		A short comment on long half‐lives Charles R. Cowley


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Nobel physics prize honors achievements in graphene Mark Wilson


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Select this Article		Two experiments, two takes on electric bacteria Ashley G. Smart

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	+ -	Show Topic Biologists know that certain kinds of microbes can convert organic waste into useful electric current. They just aren't yet sure how.

Select this Article		Optical absorption of single molecules observed by three groups Johanna Miller


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Select this Article		Balloon experiment reveals a new way of finding ultrahigh‐energy cosmic rays Bertram Schwarzschild

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Select this Article		Physics Update R. Mark Wilson, Jermey N. A. Matthews, Richard J. Fitzgerald, Steven K. Blau, and Charles Day


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		Science diplomacy enlisted to span US divide with developing world David Kramer

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Select this Article		At work in the trenches of science diplomacy David Kramer

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Select this Article		LIGO relocation would boost gravitational‐wave science Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Panel urges reprieve for the Tevatron Bertram Schwarzschild

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Select this Article		Japan plans underground gravitational‐wave detector Toni Feder


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Astrophysics of Planet Formation Philip J. Armitage and Diana Valencia, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Time :From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics Dennis D. McCarthy, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, and Steven Jefferts, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Kinetic Theory of the Inner Magnetospheric Plasma George V. Khazanov and David Knudsen, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Stochastic Processes for Physicists: Understanding Noisy Systems Kurt Jacobs and Cosma Shalizi, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on software and data acquisition Andreas Mandelis


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OBITUARIES

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Select this Article FREE		Richard E. Norberg Mark S. Conradi, Daniel J. Leopold, and Michael W. Friedlander


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article FREE		Erosion pillars, from circuits to the cosmos Matthew Vonk


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		A PIONIERing interferometer


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