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January 1988
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Reference Frame
Letters
Bolide Extinction Theory Makes Impact
Ronald Kollgaard; S. I. Salem; Kent Peacock; Geoffrey A. Landis; Gerald Solof; Sanford Aranoff; Luis W. Alvarez
Physics Today 41 (1), 13–120 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811269
SDI: When Defenses Turn Offensive
Physics Today 41 (1), 126–127 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811303
Cosmic Strings and Superstrings
Physics Today 41 (1), 128–129 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811306
Search and Discovery
Articles
New Particle Accleration Techniques
Physics Today 41 (1), 26–34 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881151
The next generation of electron‐positron colliders will hove to be linacs with very large accelerating gradients provided by more or less novel techniques.
The Biophysics of Visual Photoreception
Physics Today 41 (1), 38–46 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881152
The absorption of a single photon by a pigment molecule called rhodopsin in a photoreceptor cell in the retina initiates a process of amplification that ends in a neural response.
Merle Antony Tuve: Pioneer Nuclear Physicist
Physics Today 41 (1), 57–64 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881153
Working during the years between the world wars, first with Tesla coils and then with Van de Graaff generators, he established one of the earliest nuclear physics programs based on particle accelerators.
Washington Reports
Meetings
AAPT and APS Meet in Crystal City
Physics Today 41 (1), 67–68 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811274
Highlights include sessions on physics education, supernova 1987a, high‐temperature superconductors, nuclear physics and nuclear proliferation, as well as awards and the annual physics show.
Physics Community
Books
Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Science and Engineering
Physics Today 41 (1), 81–82 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811282
Treatise on Heavy‐Ion Science, Volume 5: High‐Energy Atomic Physics and Physics of Highly Charged Ions
Physics Today 41 (1), 82–84 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811284
