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Readings from the Physics
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a collection of readings from our archives related to this month's issue.
Last update: 1 December 2001.
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Articles
Acoustic Surgery (click
here)
Negative Pressures and Cavitation In Liquid Helium
Humphrey Maris and Sebastien Balibar
February 2000, page 29
Time Reversed Acoustics Part 1 | Part 2
Mathias Fink
March 1997, page 34
The Promise and Challenge of Solid-State Lighting (click
here)
GaN Laser Diode Brightens Hopes for a Long-Lived, Short-Wavelength Device
Barbara Goss Levi
April 1996, page 18
Blue-Green Diode Lasers Part 1 | Part 2
Gertrude F. Neumark, Robert M. Park, and James M. DePuydt
June 1994, page 26
Blue Diode Lasers
Noble M. Johnson, Arto V. Nurmikko, and Steven P. DenBaars
October 2000, page 31
Physics Update
X-pinch Flash Photography (click
here)
Phase-Sensitive X-Ray Imaging
Richard Fitzgerald
July 2000, page 23
Reference Frame
Two Theorists Never in Doubt (click
here)
Cosmic Microwave Observations Yield More Evidence of Primordial Inflation
Bertram Schwarzschild
July 2001, page 16
Letters
US Terrorist Vulnerability Exposed Years Ago(click
here)
Legislation to Revive OTA Focuses on Science Advice to Congress
Jim Dawson
October 2001, page 24
Defense Work Is Physicists' Tradition(click
here)
Defending One's Country Is Moral, Too
Robert K. Adair
September 2001, page 78
Greenhouse Gases Warm Things Up(click
here)
Warming Oceans Appear Linked to Increasing Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases
Barbara Goss Levi
June 2001, page 19
Folding The Sciences Was Tough but Correct Decision(click
here)
New York Academy Pulls Plug on The Sciences
Toni Feder
August 2001, page 24
Principia Is Proud of Solar Car Success(click
here)
Michigan Students Win Solar Road Race
Paul Guinnessy
September 2001, page 29
On Religion and Science and Money's Power to Corrupt(click
here)
Does Religion Prize Mislead Scientists?
Mark Friesel
February 2001, page 82
Credit Clarified for Biomolecules Work(click
here)
The Manipulation of Single Biomolecules
Terence Strick, Jean-François Allemand, Vincent Croquette, and David Bensimon
October 2001, page 24
Search and Discovery
Cornell, Ketterle, and Wieman Share Nobel Prize for Bose-Einstein Condensates (click here)
Experimental
Studies of Bose-Einstein Condensation
Wolfgang Ketterle
December 1999, page 30
The
Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dilute Gases
Keith Burnett, Mark Edwards, and Charles W. Clark
December 1999, page 37
Issues and Events
IAEA Calls for Tighter Security Worldwide(click
here)
Nations Tackle Nuclear Terrorist Threat
Paul Guinnessy
July 2001, page 29
CERN Grapples with LHC Cost Hike(click
here)
Cern Plans to Reduce Costs throught Voluntary Pay Cuts
Toni Feder
August 1997, page 51
Cern Council Decides to Build LHC Now - and Pay for It Later
Toni Feder
February 1997, page 58
Goldin Era Ends at NASA, Canada Picks New Space Chief(click
here)
Goldin Maps NASA's Past, Present, and Future
Paul Guinnessy
April 2001, page 25
Physics Societies Seek to Aid Fight against Terrorism(click
here)
Past Science Advisers Counsel Bush Nominee
Jim Dawson
August 2001, page 22
Green light for Wyoming grads(click
here)
Graduate Physics in Wyoming Hinges on Boosting Undergrad Enrollment and Funding Observatory
Toni Feder
June 1999, page 53
Bell Labs management(click
here)
Bell Labs Research Regroups as Parent Lucent Shrinks
Toni Feder
October 2001, page 26
Software pro leads Bell Labs
November 2001, page 31
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2001 American Institute of Physics
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