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Volume 29, Issue 12
December 1976
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ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699

Letters

Coal: no superabundance for US
Albert A. Bartlett
Physics Today 29 (12), 9–11 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024622
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More on civil defense
Thomas Y. Palmer; Carl E. Friedberg; Eugene P. Wigner; Arthur A. Broyles; Walter Murphey; Sidney D. Drell
Physics Today 29 (12), 11–15 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024623
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Ozone clarification
Douglas Davis
Physics Today 29 (12), 15–42 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024625
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Since versus because
Philip Pechukas
Physics Today 29 (12), 42 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024638
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Prejudice in physics?
R. D. Richtmyer; S. A. Goudsmit
Physics Today 29 (12), 42 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024639
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Need for good references
Hans Dolezalek; A. W. K. Metzner
Physics Today 29 (12), 42–43 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024641
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Physics problems in fusion
John M. Dawson; Burton D. Fried
Physics Today 29 (12), 43 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024642
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Support for rebuttals
G. R. Barsch; P. H. Cutler; R. H. Good, Jr; B. R. Kendall; L. G. Lang; E. W. Muller; K. Vedam; T. A. Wiggins
Physics Today 29 (12), 43 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024644
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New journals not needed
Brian G. Wybourne; David Caplin; David Sherrington; Roy Jacobs
Physics Today 29 (12), 43–46 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024646
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A UFO by any other name
J. Allen Hynek
Physics Today 29 (12), 46 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024647
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Role of small physics
Richard C. Sill
Physics Today 29 (12), 46 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024649
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More on monopoles
David Rosenbaum; A. O. Barut
Physics Today 29 (12), 46–47 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024650
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Pro metric
Dave Goss
Physics Today 29 (12), 47 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024652
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Correction
Physics Today 29 (12), 47 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3043339
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Search and Discovery

Nobel prize to Richter and Ting for discovery of J/psi
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 29 (12), 17–20 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024626
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Shortest wavelength laser from harmonic generation
H. Richard Leuchtag
Physics Today 29 (12), 17–19 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024628
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New values for boiling and freezing points
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 29 (12), 19 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024630
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Treatment of sewage by electrons and gammas
Floyd C. Bennett
Physics Today 29 (12), 20 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024631
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Articles

Heisenberg and the early days of quantum mechanics
In Special Collection: Quantum archive
Felix Bloch
Physics Today 29 (12), 23–27 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024633

Recollections of the days, 50 years ago, when a handful of students in the “entirely useless” field of physics heard of a strange new mechanics invented by Maurice de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger.

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Congressional interactions at very small impact parameter
Paul Horwitz
Physics Today 29 (12), 28–32 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024634

A Scientist Fellow, sponsored by The American Physical Society, evaluates his one‐year term in the Washington maze as adviser, legislative aide and handyman.

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Energy research for physicists
George T. Reynolds
Physics Today 29 (12), 34–41 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024636

Problems in fluid dynamics alone illustrate the challenge for physics in the development of such resources as solar and geothermal.

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Books

The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb
H. York; William A. Higinbotham
Physics Today 29 (12), 49–50 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024655
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Air Pollution: Threat and Response
D. A. Lynn; Parker C. Reist
Physics Today 29 (12), 50 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024657
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The Nucleon—Nucleon Interaction
G. E. Brown; A. D. Jackson; Earle L. Lomon
Physics Today 29 (12), 50–51 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024658
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A Taste of Science
R. J. Tykodi; Edward Mac Kinnon
Physics Today 29 (12), 51–52 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024660
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A Short Course in Cloud Physics and Clouds, Rain, and Rainmaking, 2nd Edition
R. R. Rogers; B. J. Mason; J. Doyne Sartor
Physics Today 29 (12), 52 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024662
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Vacuum Technology
A. Roth; Mars H. Hablanian
Physics Today 29 (12), 52–53 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024663
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Quantum Collision Theory
J. C. Joachain; L. David Roper
Physics Today 29 (12), 53 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024665
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Quantum States of Atoms, Molecules and Solids
M. A. Morrison; T. L. Estle; N. F. Lane; M. Eugene Rudd
Physics Today 29 (12), 53–54 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024666
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Science in Flux
J. Agassi; Peter Caws
Physics Today 29 (12), 54 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024668
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Book Notes
Floyd C. Bennett
Physics Today 29 (12), 54–55 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024670
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New Books
Physics Today 29 (12), 55–56 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024671
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We Hear That

Schultz and Knowles win Silver Medals in acoustics
Physics Today 29 (12), 57–58 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024673
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Correction
Physics Today 29 (12), 58 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3043340
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Obituaries

Eugene Eichler
Noah Johnson; G. D. O'Kelley; T. A. Carlson
Physics Today 29 (12), 58–59 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024676
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Seville Chapman
Physics Today 29 (12), 59 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024678
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Allan M. Cartter
Physics Today 29 (12), 59 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024679
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Stanley G. Thompson
Physics Today 29 (12), 59 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024681
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New Products

New Products
Physics Today 29 (12), 61–63 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024682
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APS News

Revised Constitution allows for expanded election slate
Physics Today 29 (12), 65–67 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024684
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Polymer short course will precede March meeting
Physics Today 29 (12), 67 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024686
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State and Society

Hinners of NASA looks ahead to the Spacelab era
Floyd C. Bennett
Physics Today 29 (12), 69–72 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024687
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ERDA plans to close Argonne ZGS two years hence
Floyd C. Bennett
Physics Today 29 (12), 69–70 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024689
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White House science office organizes
Floyd C. Bennett
Physics Today 29 (12), 70–72 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024690
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New officers elected for National Academy
Physics Today 29 (12), 72 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024694
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In Brief
Physics Today 29 (12), 72 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024695
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Physics Community

Computer graphics used in first‐year physics
Bruce C. Carr
Physics Today 29 (12), 71 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024692
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Editorial

Encouraging the scholar
Brian Pippard
Physics Today 29 (12), 88 (1976); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3024697
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