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Astrophysicists watch the Sun
The coronagraph, with an artificial moon that permits observations of the sun as though it were in eclipse, is providing a rapid accumulation of data which are raising more questions than they have answered.
Living matter and physical laws
The biologist is perhaps as skeptical of the help the physicist can offer the life sciences as the physicist is confident that he has something to offer. But physical concepts are being applied to the study of life both with humility and with prospects for progress.
Microwaves and sound
A recent development shows that obstacle arrays, modeled after the periodic structure of crystals, refract and focus not only electromagnetic waves, but sound waves as well.
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Solid State Symposium
Ewald to head physics at Brooklyn Poly
AAAS Symposium On Physics
Semiconductors and ferroelectrics; Electrons, cosmic rays, and flash bulbs.
Microscopy With X‐Rays
Experimental instrument models described
High Flux
Chalk River isotopes available
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