Issues

When APS and AAPT hold their annual meeting this month, the program will include diverse events for the physicist as basic scientist, technologist, teacher, employee and world citizen

Heat engines operating in the tropical oceans, capitalizing on the temperature differential between upper and lower levels, could provide a source of economical, pollution‐free electricity

The discoverer of “type‐II” superconductivity lets us in on the excitement of an important time for low‐temperature physics

Here is a communication from Richard Robiscoe, David Anderson and E. F. Kelley at Montana State University, Bozeman:

Manuel Rotenberg at the University of California, La Jolla, inspired by Fred Seitz's recent article on Eugene Wigner, reports this example of Wigner's selfeffacing style:

A memorandum, send to us by Donald Gunter, warned Cal Tech personnel of an unusual service interruption: