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February 1993
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
The Protein Folding Problem
Physics Today 46 (2), 24–32 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881371
Understanding and predicting the three‐dimensional structures of proteins from their sequences of amino acids requires both basic knowledge of molecular forces and sophisticated computer programs that search for the correct configurations.
Roundtable: Physics in Transition
Judith L. Bostock; D. Allan Bromley; Ralph E. Gomory; Daniel Kleppner; Albert J. Libchaber; Walter E. Massey; Alan Schriesheim; Richard N. Zare; Gloria B. Lubkin; Irwin Goodwin
Physics Today 46 (2), 36–47 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881372
Recent scientific developments, new research instruments and different political and economic demands caused by the end of the cold war and the instability of corporate America are making changes in physics increasingly apparent. Roundtable participants discuss the immediate future of physics.
Meetings
Washington Reports
Physics Community
Books
Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI
Physics Today 46 (2), 82–84 (1993);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808816
