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January 1995
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Letters
Atom–Plane Exp't Lived Up to Its Potential
Physics Today 48 (1), 75 (1995);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2807898
Search and Discovery
Articles
Research on Silicon and Germanium in World War II
Physics Today 48 (1), 22–27 (1995);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881449
The down of the oge of silicon electronics occurred during the war when point‐contact silicon rectifiers became standard nonlinear elements in microwave radar circuits.
Strategic Curiosity: Semiconductor Physics in the 1950s
Physics Today 48 (1), 28–34 (1995);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881450
The distinction between strategic and curiosity‐driven research may be artificial.
Interactions of Ultra‐Intense Laser Light with Matter
Physics Today 48 (1), 36–43 (1995);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881451
Generating plasma beat waves with extremely short and intense laser pulses may turn out to be the easiest way to accelerate electrons to a trillion electron volts.
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Physics Community
Opinion
Books
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science
Physics Today 48 (1), 55 (1995);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2807876
