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DEC 01, 1998

Volume 51, Issue 12

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Physics Update
DEC 01, 1998
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Physics Nobel Prize Goes to Tsui, Stormer and Laughlin for the Fractional Quantum  Hall Effect
DEC 01, 1998
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Nobel Prize Honors Kohn and Pople for Methods of Quantum Chemistry
DEC 01, 1998
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Two‐Dimensional Electron Gases Continue to Exhibit Intriguing Behavior
DEC 01, 1998
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105th Congress Passes Massive FY 1999 Budget that Boosts R&D and Purveys Lots of Pork
DEC 01, 1998
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With an Exciting Election Upset, Rush Holt Doubles the Number of Physicists in Congress
DEC 01, 1998
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Science Policy Report Prepared by Congressman Ehlers Proposes a Tune‐Up, But, Say Critics, No Major Repairs
DEC 01, 1998
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Germany Assembles Nanotechnology Networks
DEC 01, 1998
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Cambridge to Get New Library, Hawking Archive
DEC 01, 1998
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Hogstrom is AAPM’s President‐Elect for 1999
DEC 01, 1998
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APS Elects Trilling Vice President
DEC 01, 1998
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Powell Will Lead OSA in 2001
DEC 01, 1998
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AVS President‐Elect for 1999 Is Grunthaner
DEC 01, 1998
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In Brief
DEC 01, 1998
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Web Watch
DEC 01, 1998
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In Brief
DEC 01, 1998

Letters

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Tales of Bitter Magnetism: Frog Eggs, Blood Cells, Pigeon Feet, Metal Shreds and a Sore Head
DEC 01, 1998
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Conceiver and First Director of Magnet Lab Was Clearly Lax
DEC 01, 1998
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More on Chances of Recent Physics Phd’s Getting Faculty Slots
DEC 01, 1998
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How Gamow Dismayed Los Alamos by Taking on a Nuclear Test
DEC 01, 1998
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Debate on Estimating Asian Nuclear Test Yields isn’t Artless
DEC 01, 1998
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More about Philipp Lenarda—Physicist, Nobelist, Racist
DEC 01, 1998
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German Gains Upper Hand Over Latin in ‘Manned’ Spaceflight
DEC 01, 1998
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Correction
DEC 01, 1998

Features

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Simple Ordering in Complex Fluids
DEC 01, 1998
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El Niño Dynamics
DEC 01, 1998
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Fiscal Physicists
DEC 01, 1998

Reviews

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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
DEC 01, 1998
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Master of Modern Physics: The Scientific Contributions of H. A. Kramers
DEC 01, 1998
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Cats’ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature And People
DEC 01, 1998
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Black Holes and Relativistic Stars and the Man Behind the Legend
DEC 01, 1998
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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation
DEC 01, 1998
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Introduction to Geomagnetic Fields
DEC 01, 1998
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The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction
DEC 01, 1998
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Chaos in Atomic Physics
DEC 01, 1998
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Adventures in Celestial Mechanics
DEC 01, 1998
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New Books
DEC 01, 1998

Products

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Focus on Spectroscopy
DEC 01, 1998

Obituaries

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Shlomo Alexander
DEC 01, 1998
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Achilles Papapetrou
DEC 01, 1998