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Article on Ethnic Diversity Prompts Minority Retort
Search and Discovery
Nobel Prize in Physics to Lee, Osheroff and Richardson for Discovery of Superfluidity in
Aquarter of a century ago three Cornell experimenters found that when they cooled 3He below 3 mK it had three different superfluid phases and behaved anisotropically.
Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes to Curl, Kroto and Smalley for Discovering Fullerenes
Carbon is unique in its ability to combine with other atoms in innumerable ways. But only recently have we learned that pure carbon can form itself into a dazzling proliferation of molecular shapes.
Articles
The Pool‐Table Analogy with Axion Physics
A tilted room houses a mysteriously horizontal pool table, sending an imaginary character named TSP on an intellectual journey that parallels that of physicists interested in the strong CP problem and axion physics.
Topological Ideas and Fluid Mechanics
New mathematical techniques and greater computational power have made it possible to apply knot theory and braid theory to fluid flows.
The Introductory Calculus‐Based Physics Textbook
Physics professors who teach the introductory course frequently complain about the first‐year textbooks. Here are some of the books being developed in response.