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September 1974
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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The urinary drop spectrometer
Physics Today 27 (9), 23–30 (1974);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128862
Information from the external urine stream permits early, painless diagnosis of obstructions with an optical instrument developed by an interdisciplinary group.
The colonization of space
Physics Today 27 (9), 32–40 (1974);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128863
Careful engineering and cost analysis shows we can build pleasant, self‐sufficient dwelling places in space within the next two decades, solving many of Earth's problems.
Physicists I have known
Physics Today 27 (9), 42–47 (1974);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128864
Although the boy had just completed high school, Sommerfeld allowed him to enroll in his course. “May I also come to the seminar?” asked Pauli. Reminiscences of the heroic age of physics.
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Going with the flow in unstable surroundings
Savannah D. Gowen; Thomas E. Videbæk; Sidney R. Nagel
Measuring violin resonances
Elizabeth M. Wood
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors
Andreas Mandelis