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Search and Discovery
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Physics Today and the spirit of the Forties
When the magazine emerged 25 years ago, it reflected the hopes for science in the postwar period and focused attention on the new opportunities and environment for research.
The continuing search for quarks
The lack of positive evidence for physical particles with fractional charge has not halted attempts to find them with accelerators, in cosmic rays or in stable matter.
Progress in x‐ray astronomy
Recent satellite studies of celestial x‐ray sources have enabled some binary‐system components to be identified as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and in one case a black hole.
Books
Resonances
Resonances
Last March Denys Wilkinson of the University of Oxford showed how the Conferenceman gets the upper hand over his projectionist. Here, in the second excerpt from his treatise on “Slidesmanship,” Wilkinson explains how to subjugate the audience: