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February 1978
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Physicists and the revolt against science in the 1930's
Physics Today 31 (2), 23–30 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994917
The Depression provoked an attack upon science, which was aggravated by a highly publicized dispute between Millikan and Compton, exposing difficulties for physics in the United States that remain facts of life today.
Visiting Physicists Program
Physics Today 31 (2), 32–36 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994918
Graduate students are improving their knowledge of nonacademic physics careers through a program of visits to campuses by industrial physicists and trips by the students to see R&D laboratories for themselves.
Biomembrane phase transitions
Physics Today 31 (2), 38–47 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994919
In cell membranes, which are among the principal organizational structures of living matter, phase transitions appear to be biologically significant, not just phenomena that happen to occur.
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We Hear That
Sagan and Elliot honored by NASA
Physics Today 31 (2), 63–64 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994927
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Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor