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Volume 34, Issue 8

August 1981

ISSN 0031-9228

EISSN 1945-0699

In this Issue

Guest Comment
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
State and Society
Physics Community
Books
APS News
We Hear That
Obituaries
New Products
Editorial

Guest Comment

EPA radon‐hazard funds cut

Robert L. Fleischer

Physics Today 34 (8), 9 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914727

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Letters

POPA and nuclear war

Peter Keenan; Louis Rosen

Physics Today 34 (8), 11 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914683

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Relativity debate continues

Bryan G. Wallace; Frederik J. Belinfante; Allen D. Allen

Physics Today 34 (8), 11–15 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914684

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Diehard CP‐conservationist

Elihu Lubkin

Physics Today 34 (8), 15–70 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914685

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Improving physics teaching

Allan Walstad; Robert G. Fuller

Physics Today 34 (8), 70 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914706

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Wave focusing

Tudor Wyatt Johnston

Physics Today 34 (8), 70–71 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914707

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Science and nationalism

Thomas H. Chyba

Physics Today 34 (8), 71 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914708

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Editorial bias

R. T. Cutler

Physics Today 34 (8), 71 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914709

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Science for peace

Eric Fawcett

Physics Today 34 (8), 71 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914710

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Origin of σ

Ralph Baierlein

Physics Today 34 (8), 71 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914711

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More on junk mail

John L. Vossen

Physics Today 34 (8), 71–72 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914712

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Filing PT

Dwayne L. Knirk

Physics Today 34 (8), 72 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914713

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Short‐lived isotopes

M. Q. Syed

Physics Today 34 (8), 72 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914714

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Quark nomenclature

Alan R. Kerstein

Physics Today 34 (8), 72 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914715

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More on universal language

Donald J. Harlow; David Harrison

Physics Today 34 (8), 72 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914716

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Missing translator

V. F. Weisskopf

Physics Today 34 (8), 72 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914717

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Search and Discovery

Large new‐technology optical telescopes proposed

Bertram M. Schwarzschild

Physics Today 34 (8), 17–20 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914686

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Cornell plans 100‐GeV $e^{+} e^{-}$ ring

Gloria B. Lubkin

Physics Today 34 (8), 20–21 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914687

View articletitled, Cornell plans 100‐GeV <span class="inline-formula no-formula-id"><span class="mathFormula"></span><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><msup xmlns=""><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi><mrow><mi>+</mi></mrow></msup><msup xmlns=""><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi><mrow><mi>−</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> ring

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Superconducting cyclotrons

Bertram M. Schwarzschild

Physics Today 34 (8), 21–22 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914688

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In Brief

Physics Today 34 (8), 22 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914689

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Articles

The AIP in 1980

Physics Today 34 (8), 25–35 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914690

The Annual Report surveys a year of change and of major investments as the Institute begins to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary while planning for the future.

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Medical imaging systems

Rowland W. Redington; Walter H. Berninger

Physics Today 34 (8), 36–44 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914691

We can obtain crosssectional pictures of the living body, mapping not only structures but physiological functions.

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Low temperature science—what remains for the physicist?

Robert C. Richardson

Physics Today 34 (8), 46–50 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914692

Although the perennial forecast of a bleak future for fundamental physics seems to ring true every time we hear it, the actual end of new discoveries never seems to arrive.

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Pure Physics—a costly vitality and a restricted limelight

Brian Pippard

Physics Today 34 (8), 50 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914693

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State and Society

Iraqi reactor damaged in Israeli bombing raid

Gloria B. Lubkin

Physics Today 34 (8), 53–56 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914694

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SERI report suppressed

Jean Coonan

Physics Today 34 (8), 54–56 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914695

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Physics Community

New policies for Phys Rev Letters

Daniel Gladstone

Physics Today 34 (8), 55 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914696

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Books

Never at Rest and The Newtonian Revolution

Richard S. Westfall; I. Bernard Cohen; Curtis A. Wilson

Physics Today 34 (8), 57–58 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914697

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order

D. Bohm; Martin Curd

Physics Today 34 (8), 58–62 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914698

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The Large‐Scale Structure of the Universe

P. J. E. Peebles; Simon D. M. White

Physics Today 34 (8), 62–63 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914699

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Interiors of the Planets

A. H. Cook; William M. Kaula

Physics Today 34 (8), 63–64 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914700

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Rainbows, Halos, and Glories

R. Greenler; Alistair B. Fraser

Physics Today 34 (8), 64 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914701

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Surprises in Theoretical Physics

R. Peierls; Victor F. Weisskopf

Physics Today 34 (8), 64–65 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914702

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Techniques and Applications of Path Integration

L. S. Schulman; Cecile Dewitt‐Morette

Physics Today 34 (8), 65–66 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914703

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Thermoluminescence Techniques in Archeology

S. Fleming; S. R. Sutton

Physics Today 34 (8), 66–67 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914704

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New Books

Physics Today 34 (8), 67–69 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914705

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APS News

Nineteen scholarships for minority students

Physics Today 34 (8), 73 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914718

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We Hear That

Langley Medal awarded to Jones and Draper

Physics Today 34 (8), 75 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914719

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Geophysical Union honors seven

Physics Today 34 (8), 75 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914720

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Georg Busch receives Frank H. Spedding award

Physics Today 34 (8), 75–76 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914721

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Norwegian physicists receive awards

Physics Today 34 (8), 76 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914722

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In Brief

Physics Today 34 (8), 76 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914723

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Obituaries

Vladimir Rojansky

Alfred T. Goble

Physics Today 34 (8), 76 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914724

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New Products

New Products

Physics Today 34 (8), 77–79 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914725

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Editorial

Needed: more work on proliferation

Harold L. Davis

Physics Today 34 (8), 96 (1981); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914726

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