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July 1989
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Search and Discovery
Stanford Linear Collider Finally Starts Producing the
Physics Today 42 (7), 17–21 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811077
Articles
Neutrino Oscillations and Solar Neutrinos
Physics Today 42 (7), 28–36 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881173
The hypothesized quantum mechanical process in which neutrinos transform from one ‘flavor’ into another can be studied by observing solar neutrinos with a new generation of highly sensitive detectors.
The Discovery of Nuclear Fission
Physics Today 42 (7), 38–43 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881174
Fermi's group bombarded uranium with neutrons in 1934, but it was almost five years before Hahn and Strassmann realized what these neutrons were actually doing. It required superb chemists to bring the comedy of errors to a close.
Liquids, Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Physics Today 42 (7), 52–59 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881175
Concepts developed to explain melting in two dimensions and multicritical phenomena in three dimensions lead to a detailed model for the growth and structures of smectic liquid crystal materials.
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Books
Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions
Physics Today 42 (7), 75–76 (1989);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2811094
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Corals face historic bleaching
Alex Lopatka
Grete Hermann’s ethical philosophy of physics
Andrea Reichenberger
Focus on lasers, imaging, microscopy, and photonics
Andreas Mandelis