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November 1988
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Does Pressure Pique Productivity?
Physics Today 41 (11), 156–157 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811652
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Articles
Chaos: How Regular Can It Be?
Physics Today 41 (11), 27–35 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881159
Deterministic classical chaos can show up in conservative physical systems as simple as a forced swinging pendulum, yet underlying symmetries in these systems yield order within the apparently random motions.
Superconductivity Research: A Different View
Physics Today 41 (11), 38–46 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881160
Will the US eventually lose the race to commercialize superconductivity? Or is the race already lost? Here is one person's perspective on the worldwide competition in high‐ superconductivity.
Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s
Physics Today 41 (11), 56–64 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881136
As high‐energy nuclear physics became particle physics, revolutions occurred not only in models and technique but also in social organization.
Washington Reports
Perils of Aging US Weapons Plants Stir Outrage and Fear of a ‘Time Bomb’
Physics Today 41 (11), 49–51 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811618
Washington Ins & Outs: After a Wait, Hunter Joins DOE; Keyworth, Bernthal to New Jobs
Physics Today 41 (11), 52 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811620
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Books
Introduction to Superstrings
Physics Today 41 (11), 114–115 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811636
Atomic Collisions and Spectra
Physics Today 41 (11), 120–122 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811640
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein
Physics Today 41 (11), 122–124 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811642
Theory of Planetary Atmospheres: An Introduction to Their Physics and Chemistry
Physics Today 41 (11), 126 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811644
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The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
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Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor