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Volume 23, Issue 12
December 1970
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ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699

Letters

Judging the value of physics research
Wolfgang Zernik
Physics Today 23 (12), 9–11 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021897
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Science exploited by business?
Joseph Schwartz
Physics Today 23 (12), 11 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021853
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Inaccurate cancer statistics
Fred M. Learned
Physics Today 23 (12), 11 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021854
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Working for the DOD
Donald L. Hardcastle; L. S. Birks
Physics Today 23 (12), 11–13 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021855
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No ABM for Washington
J. S. Huebner
Physics Today 23 (12), 13 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021856
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No depletion of oxygen
Howard B. Palmer
Physics Today 23 (12), 13 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021857
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Nonscience majors
Bradley F. Bennett
Physics Today 23 (12), 13 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021858
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Nuclear‐energy risks
Ronald L. Fox
Physics Today 23 (12), 13 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021859
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Information‐program questions
Leon J. Creek; Arthur Herschman
Physics Today 23 (12), 13–59 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021860
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Unemployment solution
name withheld
Physics Today 23 (12), 59 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021878
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A physicist in biology
Joseph A. Spadaro
Physics Today 23 (12), 59 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021879
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Corrections
Physics Today 23 (12), 59 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3043298
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Search and Discovery

Puzzle of two‐pion production: Is the pion a point charge?
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 23 (12), 17–19 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021861
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Low‐temperature physics runs both hot and cold
Harold L. Davis
Physics Today 23 (12), 17–18 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021862
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Three‐level oscillator in indium phosphide
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 23 (12), 19–20 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021863
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A Mott transition? It all depends on what you mean
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 23 (12), 20 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021864
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Articles

Physics and environment
Harold L. Davis; Walter A. Feibelman; Richard B. Hoover; Thomas A. Leonard
Physics Today 23 (12), 23–25 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4725743
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How physicists can contribute
Marvin L. Goldberger
Physics Today 23 (12), 26–30 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021865

Concerned physicists can lend their particular skills to the common problems by direct research, by teaching courses in environmental physics, or by joining interdisciplinary centers.

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Analyzing atmospheric behavior
Hans Panofsky
Physics Today 23 (12), 32–35 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021866

Most meteorologists are really physicists in disguise. They use thermodynamics and hydrodynamics to understand snow squalls in Buffalo and typhoons in Japan.

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Impact of energy demands
Ali B. Cambel
Physics Today 23 (12), 38–45 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021867

Noise. Dirt. Air and water pollution. Bad odors. Must all these accompany production of the power we need? Not if we develop imaginative technologies.

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Books

Essential Relativity: Special, General and Cosmological
Wolfgang Rindler; Kenneth C. Jacobs
Physics Today 23 (12), 47–48 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021868
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Behind Appearance: A Study Of Relations Between Painting and Natural Sciences in This Century
C. H. Waddington; A. Michael Noll
Physics Today 23 (12), 48–49 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021869
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The Nature of Physics: A Physicist's Views On the History and Philosophy Of His Science
Robert Bruce Lindsay; Erwin Hiebert
Physics Today 23 (12), 49–52 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021870
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Analytic Functions and Distributions in Physics and Engineering
Bernard W. Roos; Michael E. Fisher
Physics Today 23 (12), 52–53 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021871
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High Energy Physics, Vols. III and IV
E. H. S. Burhop; Samuel Devons
Physics Today 23 (12), 53–54 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021872
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An Introduction to Nonlinear Optics
G. C. Baldwin; David A. Kleinman
Physics Today 23 (12), 54–55 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021873
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The Design of Optical Spectrometers
J. F. James; R. S. Sternberg; Stuart A. Rice
Physics Today 23 (12), 55 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021874
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College Physical Science
Vaden W. Miles; G. Ray Sherwood; Willard H. Parsons; Philip Taylor
Physics Today 23 (12), 55–56 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021875
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The Physics of Metals: Electrons
J. M. Ziman; Thomas Scott
Physics Today 23 (12), 56 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021876
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New Books
Physics Today 23 (12), 56–57 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021877
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State and Society

Nobel laureates for 1970: Hannes Alfvén and Louis Néel
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 23 (12), 61–63 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021881
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Haggerty, McElroy, Bromley stress relevance
Theodora Johnides
Physics Today 23 (12), 61–62 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021882
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In Brief
Physics Today 23 (12), 63 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021883
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Japan builds first GeV‐class synchrotron in Asia
Harold L. Davis
Physics Today 23 (12), 63–64 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021884
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Physics Community

AIP plans expanded consultants program
Physics Today 23 (12), 64 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021885
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SPS creates associate chapters for two‐and four‐year colleges
Physics Today 23 (12), 64 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021886
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Weiner gets Guggenheim; will study history of nuclear physics
Physics Today 23 (12), 64 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021887
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Meinel of Arizona University becomes OSA president‐elect
Physics Today 23 (12), 64 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021888
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Schwarzschild of Princeton new AAS president; Bok is V.P.
Physics Today 23 (12), 64 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021889
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We Hear That

Carnegie‐Mellon Merit Award to Julius Halpern
Physics Today 23 (12), 65 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021890
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AIP gives Compton Gold Medal to Frederick Seitz
Physics Today 23 (12), 65 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021891
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Herzberg first Canadian to receive Faraday Medal
Physics Today 23 (12), 65 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021892
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Franklin Institute Honors Panofsky, Heidenreich, Hirsch
Physics Today 23 (12), 65 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021893
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We Hear That
Physics Today 23 (12), 65–68 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3072487
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Obituaries

Reginald T. Jenkins
Physics Today 23 (12), 68 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021894
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Calendar

Calendar
Physics Today 23 (12), 69–71 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021895
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Editorial

Are physicists to blame?
Harold L. Davis
Physics Today 23 (12), 80 (1970); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3021896
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