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September 1983
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
APS Council resolution on nuclear war
Jay Orear; Richard J. Peppin; Lincoln Wolfenstein; Francis J. Jankowski; O. M. Bilaniuk; Klaus Heinemann; Robert S. Flum, Sr; J. A. Cape; James W. Deer
Physics Today 36 (9), 11–108 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915835
Once more an education crisis
Physics Today 36 (9), 118–120 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915834
Search and Discovery
Articles
Overview of the problem
Physics Today 36 (9), 26–30 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915845
Our present situation is the culmination of a long trend—interrupted only weakly in the Sputnik era—of declining enrollments in physics, but the state of the economy may provide a new context.
Why Physicists leave teaching
Physics Today 36 (9), 32–37 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915846
A host of problems leads one to wonder who will be there to teach the coming generation of students to work and to succeed in our technological society.
Paths to a solution
Physics Today 36 (9), 44–49 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915852
How local, state and national initiatives are addressing the need for improved financial benefits, better training and greater recognition for science teachers, and for programs to attract more science students.
Places where things are right
Physics Today 36 (9), 52–60 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915853
Analysis of the reasons for the success of a number of outstanding high‐school programs in physics suggests a set of conditions for creating successful programs at other schools.
Washington Reports
Physics Community
Meetings
Books
E. B. Christoffel: The Influence of His Work on Mathematics and the Physical Sciences
Physics Today 36 (9), 81–82 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915863
McGraw‐Hill Encyclopedia of Physics and McGraw‐Hill Encyclopedia of Astronomy
Physics Today 36 (9), 82–83 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915864
We Hear That
DOE gives five Lawrence Awards
Physics Today 36 (9), 87–89 (1983);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915867
Obituaries
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Editorial
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor