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February 1980
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Articles
Efficient use of energy revisited
Physics Today 33 (2), 24–31 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913936
The limited supplies of cheap fuels, increasing political problems associated with them and the pollution produced by combustion—as well as other problems—make efficiency and conservation attractive strategies.
Women in physics: unnecessary, injurious and out of place?
Physics Today 33 (2), 32–40 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913937
Despite eight years of affirmative action more changes are necessary to create an atmosphere where women are equally accepted in the field of physics.
Organic solids: is energy‐band theory enough?
Physics Today 33 (2), 42–48 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913938
Their increasing usefulness, their chemical flexibility, and the inability of traditional models to explain their electronic properties makes the study of organic solids a fascinating frontier of solid‐state physics.
Books
Liquids and their Properties: A Molecular and Macroscopic Treatise with Applications
Physics Today 33 (2), 53–55 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913940
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Decontaminating Three Mile Island
Physics Today 33 (2), 90–91 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913956
Physics Community
Editorial
Corals face historic bleaching
Alex Lopatka
Grete Hermann’s ethical philosophy of physics
Andrea Reichenberger
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics
Andreas Mandelis