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Issues
November 1993
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Reforming Physics and Physicists for Lean Times
Physics Today 46 (11), 11–15 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809085
Did Privilege Blunt Soviet Scientists' Politics?
Physics Today 46 (11), 111–113 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809114
Search and Discovery
Articles
Atom Motion on Surfaces
Physics Today 46 (11), 24–31 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881367
When atoms deposited on a surface move easily, they find the optimum crystal sites and form high‐quality films, a process now visible in the scanning tunneling microscope.
Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory
Physics Today 46 (11), 34–40 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881368
We are in the midst of a restructuring of the physical sciences. Internally, they are stratifying into independent levels with stable basic principles; externally budgets are shrinking and political objectives are changing.
The XXIV Physics Olympiad Examinations
Physics Today 46 (11), 44–51 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881369
Creating a set of challenging but fair problems for students from over 40 countries who have learned physics in a wide variety of educational systems poses its own challenges.
Meetings
Washington Reports
Physics Community
Books
Principles of Physical Cosmology and an Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology
Physics Today 46 (11), 87 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809099
New Products
We Hear That
Obituaries
Calendar
Q&A: Tam O’Shaughnessy honors Sally Ride’s courage and character
Jenessa Duncombe
Ballooning in Albuquerque: What’s so special?
Michael Anand
Comments on early space controversies
W. David Cummings; Louis J. Lanzerotti