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July 1979
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Guest Comment
Letters
Reactions to APS support of ERA
C. Alden Mead; Ann Laurie Conn; James A. Slavin; Fred Jeffers; Milos Machacek; Geraldine Karpel; Steven C. Barrowes; Anna K. Nabelek; Igor V. Nabelek; Ingram Bloch; Lewis M. Branscomb
Physics Today 32 (7), 11–82 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995609
Summary of APS action on ERA
Bernard R. Cooper; Paul Craig; Vernon J. Ehlers; Vera Kistiakowsky; Robert H. March; Thomas H. Moss; Elizabeth U. Baranger; Harvey Brooks; Bernard L. Cohen; Herman Feshbach; Richard L. Garwin; Edward Gerjuoy; John S. Toll; Gunther K. Wertheim
Physics Today 32 (7), 12–13 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995610
Search and Discovery
Articles
Beauty and the quest for beauty in science
Physics Today 32 (7), 25–30 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995616
Science, like the arts, admits aesthetic criteria; we seek theories that display “a proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole” while still showing “some strangeness in their proportion.”
Crystallographic contributions to the energy problem
Physics Today 32 (7), 32–39 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995617
Radiation effects, electrolytes, superconductors and catalysts are just four out of the many areas where crystallography is helping to improve existing materials and develop new ones.
The pseudopotential panacea
Physics Today 32 (7), 40–47 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995618
Potentials for describing the behavior of valence electrons in solids have considerably advanced our understanding of real materials, including their optical spectra, bonding, superconductivity and surfaces.
Books
Geomagnetic Diagnosis of the Magnetosphere (Physics and Chemistry in Space, Volume 9)
Physics Today 32 (7), 57 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995622
