Issues

Photographs from the past five decades to appeal to the collective nostalgia of the physics community

Comparing where we are now with what we would have predcited 50 years ago makes us no wiser in predicting the next 50 years

We have gained a more detailed knowledge of complex phenomena, and our institutions have grown in size and scope.

describes the rise in enrollments, the increased complexity of ideas taught and new diverse texts, films and other equipment.

After quantum electrodynamics came its offspring—quantum electro‐weak dynamics and chromodynamics

The accelerator race has advanced the frontier of knowledge from $10−12$ to $10−16 cm$—with a comparable increase in machine size

Landau's notion of an “elementary excitation” has allowed us to understand many properties of ordinary condensed matter, as well as aspects of superconducting and superfluid states

We study condensed‐matter states, response to stimuli, phase transitions, and microscopic interactions

Surveys a half century of acoustical studies, from the nonlinear behavior of the ear to the sounds of superfluidity

Virtuallt three‐quarters of optics research today was not possible twenty years ago, before lasers and high‐speed computers

Observational discovery comes on the heels of technological innovation, giving physics an increasingly dominant role in astronomy

Atomic physics, the proving ground of theoretical physics 50 years ago, is undergoing a technological revolution, sparked by lasers and techniques from high‐energy physics

Describes the evolution of modern vacuum pumps and vacuum gauges and their interplay with science and the industry

Journal publishing, the main activity of AIP serves 60 times more readers than in 1931 and is entering the elctronic era.