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Trends in American science
Despite a national tradition of technology and invention we have turned to the support of basic research. Will it continue?
Color vision
The 1947 International Conference on Color Vision at Cambridge, England, is reported and analyzed by a participant.
A newsman looks at physicists
Tips on the press by a newswriter caught between the exacting standards of the physicist and the equally exacting but somewhat alien needs of the newspaper reader.
Physics and cancer
The fundamentals of cancer are the fundamentals of growth. Physics offers biology tools and techniques to attack the disease, but both sciences must work together on the basic problems of growth.
Washington Letter
Washington Letter
For science news in Washington, Physics Today turned to a man eminently qualified to report scientific events from a physicist's viewpoint. As head of the National Research Council's Office of Scientific Personnel, Dr. M. H. Trytten's normal duties provide contact with most of the major scientific events in Washington. But he speaks here for himself, not for any official organization—which is the freest way of writing such a monthly letter.—The Editor.
