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Issues
December 1957
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Articles
Physics in Poland and Russia
Physics Today 10 (12), 10–15 (1957);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3060190
Do the spectacular achievements of Soviet technology reflect the true state of progress in basic science behind the Iron Curtain? The author, a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist, thinks they do not.
Neutron interactions with the nucleus
Physics Today 10 (12), 16–18 (1957);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3060191
…a conference report
Solid state at Varenna
Physics Today 10 (12), 18–20 (1957);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3060192
A review of a summer conference at the Villa Monastero, on the shore of Lake Como in Italy. The author is professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
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Books
Realities of Space Travel: Selected Papers of the British Interplanetary Society
Physics Today 10 (12), 24 (1957);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3060197
Physical Properties of Crystals: Their Representation by Tensors and Matrices
Physics Today 10 (12), 26 (1957);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3060200