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Volume 30, Issue 12
December 1977
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ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699

Letters

Search for quarks using magnetic levitation
Giacomo Morpurgo; William M. Fairbank
Physics Today 30 (12), 9–11 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037816
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Antimatter comet?
V. Rojansky
Physics Today 30 (12), 11–13 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037817
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More on breeding
Henry Hurwitz, Jr; Jack Penkrot
Physics Today 30 (12), 13–15 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037818
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Nathiagali summer college
Khalid Rashid
Physics Today 30 (12), 15 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037819
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Laser Raman spectroscopy
J. A. Koningstein; Marc Levenson
Physics Today 30 (12), 15–52 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037820
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CBO is not OMB
Richard A. Scribner
Physics Today 30 (12), 52–53 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037827
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Journals for the third world
M. Ilyas
Physics Today 30 (12), 53 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037828
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Physicists and Washington
Binod Kumar
Physics Today 30 (12), 53 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037829
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Search and Discovery

Observation of optical bistability confirms prediction
H. Richard Leuchtag
Physics Today 30 (12), 17–20 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037821
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Accelerator technique improves radioisotope dating
Marian S. Rothenberg
Physics Today 30 (12), 17–19 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037822
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Two magnets set records for field intensity
Barbara G. Levi
Physics Today 30 (12), 20 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037823
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Articles

Physics of textiles
L. R. G. Treloar
Physics Today 30 (12), 23–30 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037824

The availability of a wide choice of polymeric fibers has stimulated great interest in their physical properties and in the principles involved in their manufacture into yarns and fabrics.

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Computerized tomography: taking sectional x rays
William Swindell; Harrison H. Barrett
Physics Today 30 (12), 32–41 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037825

A source and detector moving around the patient yield data that, processed by a computer, make visible a two‐dimensional slice of the living human body—at 2‐millimeter resolution.

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Critical‐point universality and fluids
Anneke Levelt Sengers; Robert Hocken; Jan V. Sengers
Physics Today 30 (12), 42–51 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037826

Near a critical point the behavior of widely diverse systems simplifies to one of a few universal patterns—but fluids for years resisted being fit into the slot that theory had prepared for them.

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Books

Pulsars
F. G. Smith; Stephen P. Maran
Physics Today 30 (12), 55–56 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037830
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Optics
J. P. Mathieu; Stanley S. Ballard; Alois J. Adams
Physics Today 30 (12), 56 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037831
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Potential Scattering in Atomic Physics
P. G. Burke; Robert St John
Physics Today 30 (12), 56–57 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037832
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Man Discovers the Galaxies
R. Berendzen; R. Hart; D. Seeley; C. D. Shane
Physics Today 30 (12), 57–60 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037833
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Book Notes
Craig B. Waff; John T. Scott
Physics Today 30 (12), 60–61 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037834
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New Books
Physics Today 30 (12), 61–65 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037835
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We Hear That

Greenspan and Jeffress win ASA Silver Medals
Physics Today 30 (12), 67 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037836
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Ryogo Kubo receives Boltzmann Medal
Physics Today 30 (12), 67–68 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037837
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Lenihan and Chambers elected to IOP posts
Physics Today 30 (12), 68–69 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037838
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Obituaries

Donald Cooksey
Edwin M. McMillan
Physics Today 30 (12), 69–70 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037839
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Manuel Sandoval Vallarta
Ruth Gall
Physics Today 30 (12), 70 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037840
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Dorr Chandler Ralph
Physics Today 30 (12), 70 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037841
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New Products

New Products
Physics Today 30 (12), 71–73 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037842
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APS News

APS tests computer system for publishing operations
Physics Today 30 (12), 75 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037843
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State and Society

Physicists share in Nobel prizes in three disciplines
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 30 (12), 77–78 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037844
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Yalow wins half of Nobel Prize in Medicine
H. Richard Leuchtag
Physics Today 30 (12), 78–79 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037845
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Prigogine awarded chemistry prize
Gloria B. Lubkin
Physics Today 30 (12), 79–80 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037846
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Physics Community

AIP publishes annual graduate‐student survey
Physics Today 30 (12), 80 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037847
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Fritz London Award nominations sought
Physics Today 30 (12), 80 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037848
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In Brief
Physics Today 30 (12), 80 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037849
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Editorial

Physics on the airwaves
Harold L. Davis
Physics Today 30 (12), 96 (1977); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037850
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