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October 1994
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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The Electron‐Beam Ion Trap
Physics Today 47 (10), 27–34 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881419
A small apparatus can produce any highly charged ion—hydrogen‐like or bare uranium, for example—making possible new tests of quantum electrodynamics and studies of surprising collision behavior at surfaces.
Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy
Physics Today 47 (10), 38–45 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881420
A technique based on laser ionization allows researchers to attack an array of problems ranging from measuring fundamental physical parameters of atomic nuclei to understanding the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Is Physics Education Adapting to a Changing World?
Physics Today 47 (10), 48–55 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881421
A survey of educators finds little evidence that physics training is broadening in response to current shortages of jobs and research funds.
Washington Reports
Washington Ins & Outs: OSTP Gets Three More Physicists; Family Eisenstein Settles at NSF
Physics Today 47 (10), 57–58 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808667
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Obituaries
France’s Oppenheimer
William Sweet
Making qubits from magnetic molecules
Stephen Hill
Learning to see gravitational lenses
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan