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Volume 3, Issue 4
April 1950
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ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699

Letters

Holier than Who?
Eric A. Walker
Physics Today 3 (4), 3 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066873
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Add
Donald H. Menzel
Physics Today 3 (4), 3 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066874
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Articles

The composition of our universe
Harrison Brown
Physics Today 3 (4), 6–13 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066875

A survey of the evidence that suggests the universe is remarkably uniform in its chemical composition.

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Industrial research foundations
Haldon A. Leedy; Francis W. Godwin
Physics Today 3 (4), 14–19 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066839

Scientific investigation is now so costly, the little fellow with a big problem often cannot solve it by himself. But he can get packaged research from the increasingly active industrial research foundations whose mobile structure is geared to handle all kinds of applied research.

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From Archimedes to supersonics
James Bernard Kelley
Physics Today 3 (4), 20–24 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066840

…being some remarks on fluids.

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Journal Notes

The Crying of Bats
Donald R. Griffin
Physics Today 3 (4), 25 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066841
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Advertiser Killer
I. Clyde Cornog
Physics Today 3 (4), 25 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066842
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Deuteron Disintegration
Conrad Longmire
Physics Today 3 (4), 25 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066843
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Fine Lines in Soot
Kenneth R. Eldredge
Physics Today 3 (4), 25–26 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066844
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Nonastigmatic
Heinz Haber
Physics Today 3 (4), 26 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066845
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City Noise
G. L. Bonvallet
Physics Today 3 (4), 26 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066846
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Analytic Source
Arthur G. Rouse
Physics Today 3 (4), 27 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066847
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Spectrograph
R. V. Pound
Physics Today 3 (4), 27 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066848
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Mathematical Biophysics
A. Rapoport
Physics Today 3 (4), 27 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066849
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Institute Doings

Institute Doings
Henry A. Barton
Physics Today 3 (4), 28 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066851
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News and Views

Footnotes to Security
Physics Today 3 (4), 28–29 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066852

National Science Foundation; AEC Fellowships.

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Stress Phenomena
W. James Lyons
Physics Today 3 (4), 29–30 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066853

High‐Polymer Division holds unifying symposium

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At Stanford
L. I. Schiff
Physics Today 3 (4), 30 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066854

APS meeting reported

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Burned
Physics Today 3 (4), 30 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066855

Princeton cyclotron destroyed

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Society Activities
Physics Today 3 (4), 30–31 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066856

U.S. Committee joins international union; Television joins the family.

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Established
Physics Today 3 (4), 31 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066858

New technical photography journal

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NBS Expands
Physics Today 3 (4), 31 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066859

New radio lab at Boulder

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Conferences Coming
Physics Today 3 (4), 31–32 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066860

On telemetering; On wave propagation; Colloquium of college physicists.

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Fellowship Offered
Physics Today 3 (4), 32 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066861

Bryn Mawr

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Honors and Awards
Physics Today 3 (4), 32 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066862

Metals Medal; John H. Potts Award and Medal; MIT fellowships granted; Mascart Medal; Alaskan Geophysical Institute honors Tuve.

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Obituaries

Max Berek
Physics Today 3 (4), 32 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066863
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Joseph Razek
Physics Today 3 (4), 32 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066864
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John Daniel
Physics Today 3 (4), 32 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066865
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Books

Kinematic Relativity
E. A. Milne; H. P. Robertson
Physics Today 3 (4), 33–35 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066866
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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik)
R. Sänger; S. A. Goudsmit
Physics Today 3 (4), 35 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066867
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Deformation and Flow. An Elementary Introduction to Theoretical Rheology
Markus Reiner; Henry Eyring
Physics Today 3 (4), 35–36 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066868
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Leitfähigkeit und Leitungsmechanismus fester Stoffe
Eduard Justi; Frederick Seitz
Physics Today 3 (4), 36 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066869
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Books Received
Physics Today 3 (4), 37 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066870
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Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events
Physics Today 3 (4), 37 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066871
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Whereabouts

Whereabouts
Physics Today 3 (4), 38–39 (1950); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066872
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