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January 1982
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
Search and Discovery
Deep redshift survey of galaxies suggests million‐ void
Physics Today 35 (1), 17–19 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2889995
Articles
The early days of accelerator mass spectrometry
Physics Today 35 (1), 25–32 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2890001
In a first‐hand description of accelerator experiments on nuclei of mass three, the author traces the ideas that led to the development of a powerful analytical technique.
The physicist as entrepreneur
Physics Today 35 (1), 34–40 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2890002
“I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company, and that this new kind of company is the frontier for the next generation.”—Edwin Land (1946)
Rayleigh scattering
Physics Today 35 (1), 42–48 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2890003
Questions of terminology are resolved during a historical excursion through the physics of light‐scattering by gas molecules
State and Society
The Physics Community
Meetings
APS and AAPT hold January Meeting in San Francisco
Physics Today 35 (1), 55–58 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2890012
Sessions will concern nuclear physics, synchrotron radiation and VLSI, as well as the arms race, funding, and education in China and the USSR
Books
From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences
Physics Today 35 (1), 69–70 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2890013
