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April 1982
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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The solar cycle
Physics Today 35 (4), 25–34 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915008
The mysteries of the 11‐year period of sunspot activity are yielding to new approaches, such as magnetic‐dynamo modeling and a seismology that can detect photosphere pulsations as small as a few meters in amplitude.
The birth of elementary‐particle physics
Physics Today 35 (4), 36–43 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915009
In the 1930s and 1940s physicists significantly revised their views on the elementary constituents of matter, which during the 1920s they had assumed to be only the electron and the proton.
Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980s
Physics Today 35 (4), 46–52 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915010
NAS's Astronomy Survey Committee has identified priorities for new facilities that can take advantage of the tantalizing research opportunities in this decade.
State and Society
Books
Knowledge and Wonder. The Natural World as Man Knows It. Second Edition
Physics Today 35 (4), 62–63 (1982);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915015
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Editorial
France’s Oppenheimer
William Sweet
Making qubits from magnetic molecules
Stephen Hill
Learning to see gravitational lenses
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan