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Issues
May 1972
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
The optical model at high energies
Physics Today 25 (5), 23–27 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070851
Recent study of field‐theory models is bringing the optical model back into fashion for high‐energy particle scattering. With it we may obtain new insight to nucleon substructure.
Energy from breeder reactors
Physics Today 25 (5), 28–39 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070852
Reactors that consume relatively abundant uranium ores while generating more of an expensive “catalyst” than they use will be our answer to growing energy demands over the next fifty years.
1932—Moving into the new physics
Physics Today 25 (5), 40–49 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070853
The exciting events of the early 1930's raised high hopes for progress in nuclear physics and, before the end of the decade, had changed its pace, scale, cost and social applications.
Books
State and Society
Physics Community
We Hear That
OSA medals honor Byer and Fastie
Physics Today 25 (5), 75–77 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070874
