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June 1994
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
Searching for Science Criticism's Sources
Normand Mousseau; Howard K. Birnbaum; Walter L. Faust; Ivan Tolstoy; Vladimir Chaloupka; L. L. Gadeken; John Knox; T. M. Georges; D. O. Miles; Daniel Kleppner
Physics Today 47 (6), 13–102 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808515
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Blue‐Green Diode Lasers
Physics Today 47 (6), 26–32 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881438
The road to the realization of short‐wavelength, wide‐bandgap, II‐VI semiconductor diode lasers was fraught with scientific challenges.
Recollections of Lev Davidovich Landau
Physics Today 47 (6), 35–42 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881434
Landau's students and collaborators adored the great theorist. But his irreverence and nasty temper made enough powerful enemies to land him in the Gulag for a year.
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel
Physics Today 47 (6), 44–49 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881435
Self‐taught in theoretical physics as a high school student in Tsarist Russia, he was a pioneer of the study of physics in the Soviet Union, making significant contributions to fields as varied as electrodynamics, condensed matter physics and geophysics.
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Civilizing Mission. Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830–1940
Physics Today 47 (6), 74 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808534
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The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor