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September 1994
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Quark Pronunciation: Rhymes and Reasons
Carsten M. Haaland; Kalmar‐R. Stevenson; Margaret M. Bishop; Iggy McGovern; Malcolm Harvey; Eugen Merzbacher; Daniel Kleppner; N. David Mermin
Physics Today 47 (9), 9–15 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808623
Photovoltaics' Promise Still Less Than Sunny?
Physics Today 47 (9), 15–129 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808624
Search and Discovery
Articles
Sonoluminescence
Physics Today 47 (9), 22–29 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881402
A simple mechanical system can produce light from sound. In the process energy densities can increase by a factor of 1012, and 50‐picosecond light pulses are synchronized to a few parts in 1011.
New Ways of Looking at US Science and Technology
Physics Today 47 (9), 31–35 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881403
For 50 years Federal science policy was rooted in cold war perceptions of a world in which the US had one military rival and virtually no scientific and technological equals. The nation must redirect science and technology to objectives that sustain social progress and economic growth while preserving our planetary habitat.
Of Love, Physics and Other Passions: The Letters of Albert and Mileva (Part 2)
Physics Today 47 (9), 37–43 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881404
With a child on the way, Albert Einstein swore he would take the most menial job, he and Mileva Marić would marry and they would be a cozy couple, happily immersed together in the study of science.That's not how it turned out.
Meetings
Washington Reports
Physics Community
Books
Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–45
Physics Today 47 (9), 92–93 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808638
Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand
Physics Today 47 (9), 93–94 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808640
Introduction to Conformal Invariance and Its Applications to Critical Phenomena
Physics Today 47 (9), 94–95 (1994);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808642
We Hear That
Obituaries
Calendar
Seismic data provide a deep dive into groundwater health
Johanna L. Miller
NSF and postwar US science
Emily G. Blevins
On CERN and Russia
Tanja Rindler-Daller