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August 1976
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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The AIP in 1975
Physics Today 29 (8), 23–30 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023611
With publishing and service operations on target, the Institute worked to expand its public‐relations and manpower roles to aid the physics community meet current problems.
75 years of physics at NBS
Physics Today 29 (8), 33–38 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023612
A proud survey of the highlights of three quarters of a century of accurate measurements at the National Bureau of Standards, and first‐rate research in virtually every field of pure and applied physics.
Nuclear cross sections for nuclear energy
Physics Today 29 (8), 42–50 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023613
Nuclear physicists, who have already saved taxpayers millions of dollars in development costs, are now gathering data to improve safety and efficiency of commercial reactors and test the feasibility of fusion plants.
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Jeong wins Millikan Lecture Award
Physics Today 29 (8), 71–72 (1976);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3023639
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EDITORIAL
France’s Oppenheimer
William Sweet
Making qubits from magnetic molecules
Stephen Hill
Learning to see gravitational lenses
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan