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April 1976
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
The state of US physics—1976
Physics Today 29 (4), 23–30 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023421
Reflections on how the APS serves its members and the community, and a personal assessment of the year's highlights in nuclear, biological, atomic, solid‐state and particle physics.
Neutron molecular spectroscopy
Physics Today 29 (4), 32–41 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023422
Improvements in empirical potential functions and calculational techniques promise to upgrade neutron molecular spectroscopy into a powerful tool for probing intermolecular forces in complex systems.
Civil defense in limited war—a debate
Physics Today 29 (4), 44–57 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023423
Have recent developments in strategic weapons given us reason to look at civil defense in a new context?
Books
Collective Phenomena and the Applications of Physics to Other Fields of Science
Physics Today 29 (4), 60–61 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023425
APS News
New Products
State and Society
Physics Community
We Hear That
Weisskopf is new president of AAAS
Physics Today 29 (4), 85–86 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023450
Obituaries
Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor