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September 1987
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Physics Today 40 (9), 28–37 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881086
The core of a massive star that lives for 10 million years collapses within one second, initiating a series of some of the most exotic and extreme events that occur in the universe.
Leo Szilard: Giving Peace a Chance in the Nuclear Age
Physics Today 40 (9), 40–47 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881087
An honorary doctorate from Brandeis University provides a fitting epitaph: ‘A prophet ahead of his time, yet a victim of its maladies.’
Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology
Physics Today 40 (9), 61–68 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881088
It seems likely that the universe is an eternal, self‐reproducing entity divided into many mini‐universes, with low‐energy physics and perhaps even dimensionality differing from one to the other.
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Volume 1: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties, 1900–1925 (Parts 1 and 2) and Volume 2: The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925 and Volume 3: The Formulation of Matrix Mechanics and Its Modifications, 1925–1926 and Volume 4: The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics, 1925–1926. The Reception of the New Quantum Mechanics, 1925–1926 and Volume 5: Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. Part 1: Schrödinger in Vienna and Zurich, 1887–1925. Part 2: The Creation of Wave Mechanics; Early Response and Application, 1925–1926
Physics Today 40 (9), 83–84 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820189
Physics in Medicine and Biology Encyclopedia: Medical Physics, Bioengineering and Biophysics, Volumes 1 and 2
Physics Today 40 (9), 88–89 (1987);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2820193
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Going with the flow in unstable surroundings
Savannah D. Gowen; Thomas E. Videbæk; Sidney R. Nagel
Measuring violin resonances
Elizabeth M. Wood
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors
Andreas Mandelis