For physics, 1987 will be remembered as the super year. First came the remarkable supernova 1987a, with its burst of information sent our way via photons and neutrinos. Then came the drama of superconductivity at temperatures above the boiling point of nitrogen, loosing a “Woodstock of physics” at the March meeting of The American Physical Society. The Superconducting Super Collider received the somewhat restrained blessing of Congress in 1987 and set off a searching debate about priorities within the community of physicists. Superstring theory (the “theory of everything”) was a cover story of The New York Times Magazine.
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A. P. French, ed., Physics in a Technological World AIP New York (1988).
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