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February 1982
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Guest Comment
Letters
Unique insight of physicists
Physics Today 35 (2), 107–108 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914921
Search and Discovery
CERN SPS now running as 540‐GeV collider
Physics Today 35 (2), 17–20 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914929
Articles
The Physics of glass
Physics Today 35 (2), 27–33 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914932
Our quest for a satisfactory conceptual model of the way crystallization is frustrated in supercooled liquids is still in its infancy, but not for want of experimental data.
Density functional theory
Physics Today 35 (2), 36–43 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914933
A scheme for incorporating electron density distributions into calculations on many‐particle systems yields good predictions of quantities such as binding energy in molecules and phonon spectra in solids.
Maria Goeppert‐Mayer—two‐fold pioneer
Physics Today 35 (2), 46–51 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914934
Although Maria Mayer made significant contributions (leading to the Nobel Prize) starting in 1930, it was 30 years before she received a full‐time faculty appointment.
State and Society
Physics Community
Meetings
Books
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds and Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections
Physics Today 35 (2), 77–79 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914939
