Readings
from the Physics Today Archive
We are proud to present a collection of readings from our
archives that are associated with this issue. Updated throughout the
month.
The
Constant yet Ever-Changing Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics
In this age of globalization,
the ICTP continues to stem the brain drain of physicists from developing
nations while at the same time responding to new scientific challenges
-- Juan G. Roederer
Communication
in a Disordered World
Rather than decreasing efficiency, scattering can actually increase
the information transfer rate for cell phones and other wireless microwave
communication devices. Mesoscopic physics helps explain how
-- Steven H. Simon, Aris L. Moustakas, Marin Stoytchev, and Hugo Safar
Two
Revolutions in K-8 Science Education
Today's science education, which teaches all students
to do science and think like scientists, has depended on the involvement
of scientists and their societies. It must continue to do so
-- Ramon E. Lopez and Ted Schultz
Physics Update
Reference Frame
Revolution
in Science Education: Put Physics First! -- Leon Lederman
Letters
Job Search Techniques Apply to Academia, Other Fields
Defending One's Country Is Moral, Too
Which Came First, Theory or Experiment?
No-Shows Spoil Meeting Sessions
Correction
Search and
Discovery
Second Material Found that Superconducts in a Ferromagnetic State
At first glance, ferromagnetism and superconductivity look incompatible, but that hasn't turned out to be the case.
Magnetically Confined Fusion Breaks a Pressure Barrier
If plasmas can be held at higher pressures, the potential fusion power output is significantly greater.
B-Decay Experiments Show Clear Violation of CP Symmetry
The BaBar collaboration at SLAC and the Belle collaboration at KEK in
Japan have at last produced the first compelling evidence of CP
violation in any system other than the neutral K mesons.
Element 118 Bows Out
The Berkeley experimenters who claimed to have discovered a new superheavy element have submitted a comment to Physical Review Letters retracting their results.
Issues and
Events
Convocation at Snowmass Looks into the Future of US High-Energy Physics
A
500-GeV electron-positron linear collider, most particle physicists
believe, should be the next big accelerator.
Russia
Banks on Importing Nuclear Waste
Domestic
and international opposition may scuttle the survival strategy of Russia's
nuclear industry.
New NIH Institute Seeks to Serve Physicists and Engineers in Medicine
Now that medical imagers and bioengineers have succeeded in getting their own NIH institute, they have to fill its coffers and define its role both at NIH and in the wider scientific community..
Ginsparg Takes Electronic Preprint Archive to Cornell
The electronic preprint server that revolutionized communication among physicists moved in late summer from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Cornell University, along with its creator, string theorist Paul Ginsparg, who has taken a joint position in physics and computer information science.
SAIP
Leaders Aim to Integrate Physics into South African Society
For
the first time in its 46-year history, the leaders of the South African
Institute of Physics are not white men. In July, SAIP members elected
as president and vice president, respectively, a woman, Patricia Whitelock,
and a black man, Edmund Zingu.
Teen Physicists Compete in Turkey
At the end of June, high-school students from Albania to Australia converged on the seaside city of Antalya, in southern Turkey, for the 32nd International Physics Olympiad.
Physicists'
Pay Is Up
Salary increases for US
physicists are well above inflation rates, according to the latest
salary survey by the American Institute of Physics.
Michigan Students Win Solar Road Race
Students from the University of Michigan are the surprise winners of this year's American Solar Challenge, a biannual motor race in which groups build and race cars that rely solely on sunlight for fuel.
News
Notes
Energy research report
Herschel telescope on view in US
DIAMOND ring leader
NSF education post
Web Watch
Fermi Surfaces
Engineer Girl!
Dust storms on Mars
AVS
Hosts Meetings in San Francisco
Books
Boltzmann's Atom: The Great Debate that Launched a Revolution
in Physics, D. Lindley (reviewed by C. A.
Gearhart)
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on
Earth . . . and Beyond, L. M. Krauss (reviewed
by A. G. W. Cameron)
Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity,
C. J. Schrijver and C. Zwaan (reviewed by E. R. Priest)
Laser: the Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and
the Thirty-Year Patent War, N. Taylor (reviewed
by N. Bloembergen)
An Introduction to Turbulent Flow,
J. Mathieu and J. Scott (reviewed by K. R. Sreenivasan)
Handbook of Medical Imaging. Volumes 1-3,
edited by J. Beutel, H. L. Kundel, and R. L. Van Metter; M. Sonka and
J. M. Fitzpatrick; and Y. Kim and S. C. Horii (reviewed by H. K. Huang)
Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact,
D. H. Levy (reviewed by S. W. Kieffer)
New Books
New Products
Focus on Software
We Hear
That
Astronomical Society Bestows Honors
EPS
Board Hands Out Prizes to Five
In
Brief
Obituaries
Ugo
Fano
Minoru Oda
Harry Brumberger
Arnold Boris Arons
Job Opportunities
