Issues

Some new, electrically conducting organic compounds show unexpected physical phenomena such as superconductivity, spin‐density waves and a novel phase transition induced by an applied magnetic field.

The lives of six physicists, who played important roles as ‘tribal leaders’ in establishing scientific institutions, may help to provide an answer to the question: Why pursue basic research in a less developed country?

Our knowledge of the physics underlying this printing and copying technology has advanced considerably since its invention 48 years ago, but there are still important areas in which the principles are incompletely understood.

Lord Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, William Crookes and Oliver Lodge were among the physicists who joined the Society for Psychical Research in the late 19th century, a time of public fascination with spiritualism and psychic phenomena.