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Issues
December 1971
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
Shape isomers and the double‐humped barrier
Physics Today 24 (12), 23–31 (1971);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3022472
How four independent puzzles in nuclear physics converge in a single, unifying explanation—some nuclei can exist in two different shapes.
Teaching and the Environmental Challenge
Physics Today 24 (12), 32–36 (1971);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3022473
Educators can find direct connections through the subject matter of physics, the physicist's approach to problem solving and his special understanding of nature.
Recollections of Rutherford and the Cavendish
Physics Today 24 (12), 38–45 (1971);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3022474
During his years as head of the laboratory, Rutherford came to symbolize its greatness, and the two remain intertwined in the memories of a former Cambridge student.
Books
We Hear That
AVS Welch Award to Gottfried Wehner
Physics Today 24 (12), 63–65 (1971);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3022484
