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American Journal of Physics, vol. 62, no.12 (December 1994) features Joseph F. Mulligan, "Max Planck and the 'Black Year' of German Physics," 1089-1097. Vol. 63, no.4 (April 1995) includes Jeffrey J. Prentis, "Poincaré's Proof of the Quantum Discontinuity of Nature," 339-350. Vol. 63, no.7 (July 1995) includes Bruno Carazza & Helge Kragh, "Heisenberg's Lattice World: The 1930 Theory Sketch,595-605". Annals of Science, vol. 52, no.3 (May 1995) includes N. Robotti, "J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory: The History of an Electric Charge Measurement," 265-284. Vol. 52, no.4 (July 1995) features J.L. Davis, "The Research School of Marie Curie in the Paris Faculty, 1907-14," 321-355; and Dong-Won Kim, "The Emergence of Theoretical Physics in Japan: Japanese Physics Community Between the Two World Wars," 383-402. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, vol. 18, no.1 (March 1995) features Karl-Friedrich Wessel & Martin Koch, "Lügen ist überhaupt das Kennzeichen unserer Zeit. über einen unveröffentlichten Briefwechsel zwischen Max Born und Friedrich Herneck," 27-33; and Freddy Litten, "Das Schicksal der Naturwissenschaftler an der Universität München 1945-1949," 34-36. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 51, no.3 (May/June 1995) includes Arjun Makhijani, "Japan: 'Always' the Target?," 23-27; and Stanley Goldberg, "Smithsonian Suffers Legionnaire's Disease," 28-33. Centaurus, vol. 37, no.4 (1994) includes B. Mayerhoffer, "Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung bei Hermann von Helmholtz," 304-320; and H. Wolff, "Von der Hydrodynamik zur kinetischen Gas-Theorie Oskar Emil Meyer," 321-348. EOS, vol. 76, no.8 (February 21, 1995) features the final article in a three part series by E.W. Cliver, "Solar Activity and Geomagnetic Storms: From M Regions and Flares to Coronal Holes and CMEs," 75,83. Vol. 76, no.23 (June 6, 1995) features Heikki Nevanlinna, "New Geomagnetic Activity Index Series Published for 1844-1880," 233-234. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 25, part 2 (1995) features Finn Aaserud, "Sputnik and the 'Princeton Three': The National Security Laboratory That Was Not to Be," 185-239; Carol Gruber, "The Overhead System in Government-Sponsored Academic Science: Origins and Early Development," 241-268; Gyeong Soon Im, "The Formation and Development of the Ramsauer Effect," 269- 300; Nathan Reingold, "Choosing the Future: The U.S. Research Community, 1944-1946," 301-328; and Zuoyue Wang, "The Politics of Big Science in the Cold War: PSAC and the Funding of SLAC," 329-356. History of Science, vol. 33, part 1 (March 1995) includes R.W. Home, "Humboldtian Science Revisited: An Australian Case Study," 1-22. Vol. 33, part 2 (June 1995) features Friedrich Steinle, "Looking for a 'Simple Case': Faraday and Electromagnetic Rotation," 179-202; and Mansell Davies, "A Thousand Years of Science and Scientists: 988 to 1988," 239-251. Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 26, part 1 (February 1995) features Donald E. Osterbrock, "Walter Baade, Observational Astrophysicist, (Part 1): The Preparation 1893-1931," 1-32; and Alex Soojung- Kim Pang, "Victorian Observing Practices, Printing Technology, and Representations of the Solar Corona, Part 2: The Age of Photomechanical Reproduction," 63-75. Vol. 26, part 2 (May 1995) includes Helge Kragh, "Cosmology Between the Wars: The Nernst-MacMillan Alternative," 93-115. Physics Today, vol. 48, no.6 (June 1995) includes two articles by Irwin Goodwin: "Bethe Fest: Tribute to a Titan of Modern Physics," 39-41; and "Pseudo-History Redux: FBI Clears Atomic Bomb Physicists of Spying," 44. Vol. 48, no.7 (July 1995) features Russell J. Donnelly, "The Discovery of Superfluidity," 30-36. Vol. 48, no.8, part 1 (August 1995) features "A Lecture on Bomb Physics: February 1942," delivered by Werner Heisenberg and translated by William Sweet, with an introduction by David Cassidy, 27-30; Jeremy Bernstein & David Cassidy, "Bomb Apologetics: Farm Hall, August 1945," 32-36; and Stanley Goldberg, "Groves and the Scientists: Compartmentalization and the Building of the Bomb," 38-43. Physikalische Blätter, vol. 51, no.1 (January 1995) is a special issue devoted to the history of the German Physical Society. This 150th anniversary edition includes Wolfgang Schreier & Martin Franke, "Geschichte der Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 1845-1900," F9-F59; Armin Hermann, "Die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1899-1945," F61-F105; Wilhelm Walcher, "Physikalische Gesellschaften im Umbruch (1945- 1963)," F107-F133; Ernst Dreisigacker & Helmut Rechenberg, "Karl Scheel, Ernst Brüche, und die Publikationsorgane," F135-F142; Horst Nelkowski, "Die Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin in den Jahren nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg," F143-F156; Dieter Hoffmann, "Die Physikalische Gesellschaft (in) der DDR," F157-F182; Theo Mayer-Kuckuk, "Das Magnus-Haus," F183-F187; Siegfried Methfessel, "Das DPG- Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef," F189-F198; Werner Buckel, "Die Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Heraeus und Else Heraeus-Stiftung," F199-F201; Horst Rollnik, "Die Stellungnahmen und Empfehlungen der DPG ein Spiegel ihrer bildungs - und wissenschaftspolitischen Aktivitäten," F203-F213; and Ingo Peschel, "Aus der Nähe gesehen Gespräche über die DPG in den vergangenen dreiáig Jahren," F215-F233. Revue D'Histoire des Sciences, vol. 47, nos.3/4 (July/December 1994) features Yorgos Goudaroulis, "Searching for a Name: The Development of the Concept of the Critical Point (1822-1869)," 353-379; and Louis Medard, "The Scientific Work of Paul Vieille (1854-1934)," 381-404. Science and Public Policy, vol. 22, no.1 (February 1995) includes Nicholas S. Vonortas, "New Directions for U.S. Science and Technology Policy: The View from the R&D Assessment Front," 19-28. Vol. 22, no.2 (April 1995) features Eugene B. Skolnikoff, "Evolving U.S. Science and Technology Policy in a Changing International Environment," 74-84. Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 20, no.2 (Spring 1995) features Bruce V. Lewenstein, "Do Public Electronic Boards Help Create Scientific Knowledge? The Cold Fusion Case," 123-149; Steven Yearley, "From One Dependency to Another: The Political Economy of Science Policy in the Irish Republic in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century," 171-196; and Dorothea Jansen, "Convergence of Basic and Applied Research? Research Orientations in German High-Temperature Superconductor Research," 197-233. Scientific American, vol. 272, no.5 (May 1995) features Raymond W. Schmitt, Jr., "The Ocean's Salt Fingers," 70-75; Hans A. Bethe, Kurt Gottfried & Roald Sagdeev, "Did Bohr Share Nuclear Secrets?," 85-90; and Jeremy Bernstein, "What Did Heisenberg Tell Bohr about the Bomb?," 92-97. Vol. 273, no.1 (July 1995) includes John S. Rigden, "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Before the War," 76-81. Vol. 273, no.2 (August 1995) includes Philip Morrison, "Recollections of a Nuclear War," 42-46. Scientometrics, vol. 32, no.2 (February 1995) includes Z.J. Sampson, "Authorship Counts: 40 Years of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters," 219-226. Vol. 32, no.3 (March/April 1995) features Liu Jinming & Shu Sizhu, "Statistical Analysis of Astronomical Papers of China during 1986-1990," 237-246. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 25, no.6 (December 1994) features Arthur Miller & Frederick W. Bullock, "Neutral Currents and the History of Scientific Ideas," 895-932; and Yuri Balashov, "Uniformitarianism in Cosmology: Background and Philosophical Implications of the Steady-State Theory," 933-958. Technology and Culture, vol. 35, no.4 (1994) features G. Hecht, "Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France," 657-685; and S. Hong, "Marconi and the Maxwellians: The Origins of Wireless Telegraphy," 717-749. Vol. 36, no.1 (January 1995) includes G.C. Kunkle, "Technology in the Seamless Web: Success and Failure in the History of the Electron Microscope," 80-103. Others:Jeremy Bernstein, "Julian [Schwinger]: 1918-1994," The American Scholar, vol. 64, no.2 (Spring 1995): 241- 246; N.U. Crooker & E.W. Cliver, "Postmodern View of M-regions," Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 99, no.A12 (December 1, 1994): 23,383-23,390; John Franch, "Storming the Gates of Heaven," Sky & Telescope, vol. 90, no.3 (September 1995):26-31; Sungook Hong, "Forging Scientific Electrical Engineering," Isis, vol. 86, no.1 (March 1995): 30-51; Dong-Won Kim, "J.J. Thomson and the Emergence of the Cavendish School, 1885-1900," British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 28, no.97 (June 1995): 191-226; Ronald Kline, "World War II: A Watershed in Electrical Engineering Education," Technology and Society, vol. 13, no.2 (Summer 1994): 17-23; Karin Knorr-Cetina, "How Superorganisms Change: Consensus Formation and the Social Ontology of High-Energy Physics Experiments," Social Studies of Science, vol. 25, no.1 (February 1995): 119-147; Diana Kormos-Barkan, "Simply a Matter of Chemistry? The Nobel Prize for 1920," Perspectives on Science, vol. 2, no.4 (1994): 357-395; J. Korringa, "Early History of Multiple Scattering Theory for Ordered Systems," Physics Reports, vol. 238, no.6 (1994): 341-360; Dominique Martin-Rovet, "The International Exchange of Scholars: The Training of Young Scientists through Research Abroad. [Part] I Young French Scientists in the United States," Minerva, vol. 33, no.1 (Spring 1995): 75-98; Donald E. Osterbrock, "Walter Baade's Discovery of the Two Stellar Populations," in P.C. van der Kruit & G. Gilmore (eds.), Stellar Populations (IAU, 1995): 21-30; Raymond W. Schmitt, "The Salt Finger Experiments of Jevons (1857) and Rayleigh (1880)," Journal of Physical Oceanography vol. 25, no.1 (January 1995): 8-17.
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