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Issues
November 1970
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
What interests nonscientists?
Physics Today 23 (11), 11–12 (1970);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021816
Search and Discovery
Articles
How Josephson discovered his effect
Physics Today 23 (11), 23–29 (1970);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021826
About eight years ago a 22‐year‐old student showed his professor some calculations on quantum tunneling. Now that professor tells us
The puzzle of the A2 meson
Physics Today 23 (11), 32–38 (1970);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021827
The A2 may be two distinct but similar particles or a single object of an entirely new type. Either way, it has experimentalists arguing and theorists confused.
The relevance of physics
Physics Today 23 (11), 40–47 (1970);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021828
Why not show how physics draws upon and adds to other aspects of civilization, instead of teaching it as an isolated discipline or as a glorious entertainment for mathematical wizards?
Books
Herschel at the Cape: Diaries and Correspondence Of Sir John Herschel, 1834–1838
Physics Today 23 (11), 49–50 (1970);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021829
State and Society
Physics Community
We Hear That
Calendar
Editorial
France’s Oppenheimer
William Sweet
Making qubits from magnetic molecules
Stephen Hill
Learning to see gravitational lenses
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan