Physics Today Online
July 2000 Volume 53, Number 7
Cover: This x-ray image of a mouse was taken at the Elettra Synchrotron Light Source using a perfect lattice as a very sensitive angular filter. The contrast here, unlike that in conventional absorption imaging, originates in the tiny differences in the angle of refraction of x rays emerging from the sample. Soft tissue features such as fur and whiskers can clearly be seen. For more about this and other approaches to extracting phase information from x rays, see the article.
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Articles

Phase-Sensitive X-Ray Imaging
New approaches that can detect x-ray phase shifts within soft tissues show promise for
clinical and biological applications -- Richard Fitzgerald

Special Focus: Perspectives on Copenhagen

A Historical Perspective on Copenhagen
What was Werner Heisenberg trying to tell Niels Bohr during his visit to Copenhagen in 1941, and what did he want from Bohr? -- David C. Cassidy

The German Uranium Project
The Farm Hall tapes show that Werner Heisenberg did not know how to calculate the critical mass in 1945, indicating that he did not work on atomic bombs during the war -- Hans A. Bethe

Werner Heisenberg and Albert Einstein

Departments

Physics Update

Reference Frame
The contemplation of quantum computation
-- N. David Mermin

Letters

Search and Discovery

  • Balloon measurements of the cosmic microwave background strongly favor a flat cosmos
  • An atom is trapped by the field of just one photon
  • Our knowledge of G gets worse, then better

  • ACA Celebrates its 50th Anniversary this Month

    Washington Reports

  • Astronomers envision new observing instruments in next decade to focus on farthest reaches
  • Washington ins & outs: Rosenfeld, Creedon, and Kelly advance

  • Physics Community

  • Argo begins systematic global probing of the upper oceans
  • An 'A' for UK physics
  • String theorist wins premier book prize
  • Physics lags in attracting women
  • In Brief
  • Web Watch

  • Books

  • In the Shadow of the Bomb Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist: , S. S. Schweber (reviewed by S. D. Drell)
  • Physics with Tau Leptons, A. Stahl (reviewed by M. L. Perl)
  • Black Hole Physics: Basic Concepts and New Developments, V. P. Frolov and I. D. Novikov (reviewed by J. A. Isenberg)
  • ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer, S. McCartney (reviewed by J. R. Macdonald and H. G. Cragon)
  • Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces, R. A. L. Jones and R. W. Richards (reviewed by M. Muthukumar)
  • Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project, R. H. Howes and C. L. Herzenberg (reviewed by B. C. Zulueta)
  • New books
  • New Products
    Focus on vacuum technology

    We Hear That

    Obituaries

  • Fredrik Zachariasen
  • James Edward Zimmerman
  • Thaddeus Francis Kycia
  • Michael Danos

  • Information Exchange

     

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