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November 1989
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
Balancing the Branches of Physics
Physics Today 42 (11), 130–131 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811231
Refereeing Rhyme and Unreason
Physics Today 42 (11), 132–133 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811235
Search and Discovery
Articles
The Phase Problem of X‐Ray Crystallography
Physics Today 42 (11), 24–29 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881207
For almost 40 years physicists thought it impossible, even in principle, to determine complex crystal structures directly from the intensities of diffracted x rays.
Science and Scientists for a Nuclear‐Weapon‐Free World
Physics Today 42 (11), 32–36 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881209
Soviet scientists persuaded the USSR's political leadership to downplay work on missile defenses during the 1970s and 1980s. Current cooperative research by Soviet and US scientists is laying the foundation for the elimination, with verification, of offensive weaponry.
Arms Control Physics: The New Soviet Connection
Physics Today 42 (11), 39–46 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881210
Informal contacts established between US and Soviet physicists during an unpromising period in relations between the superpowers have taken on new significance since Gorbachev's emergence.
Washington Reports
Meetings
Physics Community
Books
Archaeometry: An Introduction to Physical Methods in Archaeology and the History of Art
Physics Today 42 (11), 93–94 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811218
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Obituaries
Calendar
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor