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June 1981
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Search and Discovery
Quantized Hall effect yields to a part per million
Physics Today 34 (6), 17–19 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914600
Articles
The social responsibility of scientists
Physics Today 34 (6), 25–30 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914603
The scientific community, which enjoys freedoms and benefits from its activities, has a duty to inform the public fully about the impact of scientific developments.
Science, technology and the arms race
Physics Today 34 (6), 32–41 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914604
The nuclear arms buildup continues because the superpowers use nuclear weapons primarily as political tools and fail to relate to their real potential for mass destruction.
Wandering surface atoms and the field ion microscope
Physics Today 34 (6), 44–53 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914605
New insight into the atomic action that underlies the physical and chemical properties of surfaces is coming from time‐sequence pictures of individual atoms on crystal planes.
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Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor