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November 1973
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Jewish physicists denied admission to IUPAP conference
Physics Today 26 (11), 9–13 (1973);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128309
Search and Discovery
Articles
Fluid dynamics of electron gases
Physics Today 26 (11), 23–29 (1973);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128317
Our understanding of the behavior of electron fluids is one offshoot of Otto Laporte's deep interest in shock‐wave phenomena.
Research with the space shuttle
Physics Today 26 (11), 30–37 (1973);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128318
A laboratory the size of a boxcar will be placed in earth orbit by the Space Shuttle system within the next decade, thus beginning a new era of science in space.
Introducing the AAPM
Physics Today 26 (11), 38–43 (1973);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128319
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, grown to nearly a thousand members, is an active organization sponsoring meetings, publishing journals and managing calibration laboratories.
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We Hear That
AVS Welch Award goes to L. A. Harris
Physics Today 26 (11), 75–79 (1973);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128344
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Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor