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September 1988
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Kramers's Contributions to Statistical Mechanics
Physics Today 41 (9), 26–33 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881132
Remarks and comments scattered in papers by Hendrik A. Kramers laid the conceptual foundations for the theory of phase transitions and led to the solution of the two‐dimensional Ising model.
Addressing Public Concerns in Science
Physics Today 41 (9), 36–42 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881133
If the public doesn't understand us, perhaps it's because we aren't listening. Answering the right questions in science policy depends on a sustained dialogue with the concerned public.
Physics and Soviet‐Western Relations in the 1920s and 1930s
Physics Today 41 (9), 54–61 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881134
After seven years of isolation brought about by world war and the Russian Revolution, Soviet physicists rejoined the international scientific community in the early 1920s, only to have these contacts restricted again under Stalin.
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Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Physics Today 41 (9), 104–105 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811563
Quantum Theory of Finite Systems and Quantum Many‐Particle Systems
Physics Today 41 (9), 106–107 (1988);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811565
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