Web Watch

http://www.aip.org/history/gap

In 1976, to celebrate the US bicentennial, the American Physical Society published a collection entitled Selected Papers of Great American Physicists . Now, thanks to AIP’s Center for History of Physics, the collection, which includes a foreword by Willy Fowler, is available online in its entirety.

http://web.mit.edu/nnf

Exploring the rich and interesting behavior of non-Newtonian fluids, such as the gooey polymer in okra, is the focus of Gareth McKinley’s Non-Newtonian Fluids Research Group at MIT. The group’s Web site includes several movies of its experiments.

http://www.oceandrilling.org

The aim of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) is to tap the wealth of geological and environmental information contained in the rocks and sediments of the ocean seabed. ODP’s extensive Web site describes the program, the data that have been gathered, and the scientific results obtained so far.

http://www.aip.org/history/lawrence

AIP’s Center for History of Physics has added another online exhibit to its growing collection of offerings. Written by Caltech’s Peter Westwick, Lawrence and the Cyclotron follows the life and times of Ernest Lawrence, whose invention of the cyclotron earned him the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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