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April 1978
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
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Articles
The APS in 1977: public service in an era of limited growth
Physics Today 31 (4), 23–30 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994992
Public service and concerns for human rights accompany The American Physical Society's primary function of advancing and diffusing knowledge of physics.
Why is iron magnetic?
Physics Today 31 (4), 34–39 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994993
The long‐sought explanation of the origin of ferromagnetism, which involves interactions both among the bound electrons and between bound and itinerant electrons, will guide the search for new magnetic alloys.
Nuclear power and nuclear‐weapons proliferation
Physics Today 31 (4), 42–51 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994994
The danger that fissile isotopes may be diverted from nuclear power production to the construction of nuclear weapons would be aggravated by a switch to the plutonium breeder—but future uranium supplies are uncertain.
Books
Introduction to the Renormalization Group and to Critical Phenomena
Physics Today 31 (4), 57–58 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994997
We Hear That
Hawking receives Einstein Award
Physics Today 31 (4), 68–70 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995004
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Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor