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American Journal of Physics, vol. 64, no. 4 (April 1996) includes Jacques D. Templin, "The Three-volume Sears 50 Years Later," 369-373. Vol. 64, no. 6 (June 1996) features J.M. Dudley & A.M. Kwan, "Richard Feynman's Popular Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics," 694-698. Vol. 64, no. 7 (July 1996) includes David Derbes, "Feynman's Derivation of Schrödinger's Equation," 881-884. Vol. 64, no. 9 (September 1996) features Saul A. Teukolsky, "The Explanation of the Trouton-Noble Experiment Revisited," 1104-1109; and Juan M.R. Parrondo & Pep Español, "Criticism of Feynman's Analysis of the Ratchet as an Engine," 1125-1130. American Scientist, vol. 84, no. 3 (May/June 1996) features Jonothan Logan, "The Critical Mass," 263-277. Vol. 84, no. 4 (July/August 1996) includes Gerald Holton, Hasok Chang & Edward Jurkowitz, "How a Scientific Discovery is Made: A Case History," 364-375. Annals of Science, vol. 53, no. 2 (March 1996) features Robert Fox, "Thomas Edison's Parisian Campaign: Incandescent Lighting and the Hidden Face of Technology Transfer," 157-193. Vol. 53, no. 3 (May 1996) includes K. Hentschel, "Measurements of Gravitational Redshift between 1959 and 1971," 269-295. Vol. 53, no. 4 (July 1996) includes B.J. Sokol, "Poet in the Atomic Age: Robert Frost's 'That Millikan Mote' Expanded," 399-411. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 49, no. 4 (1996) includes F. Palladino & R. Tazzioli, "Le Lettre di Eugenio Beltrami nella Corrispondenza di Ernesto Cesàro," 321-353. Vol. 50, no. 1 (1996) features Gyeong Soon Im, "Experimental Constraints on Formal Quantum Mechanics: The Emergence of Born's Quantum Theory of Collision Processes in Göttingen, 1924-1927," 73-101. British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 29, no. 100 (1996) features David Wright, "John Fryer and the Shanghai Polytechnic: Making Space for Science in Nineteenth-Century China," 1-16; and Gerrylynn K. Roberts, "C.K. Ingold at University College London: Educator and Department Head," 65-82. Vol. 29, no. 101 includes Paul Lucier, "Court and Controversy: Patenting Science in the Nineteenth Century," 139-154; Bruce J. Hunt, "Scientists, Engineers and Wildman Whitehouse: Measurement and Credibility in Early Cable Telegraphy," 155-169; and Deepak Kumar, "The 'Culture' of Science and Colonial Culture, India 1820-1920," 195-209. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 77, no. 1 (January 1996) includes J.M. Lewis, "Philip Thompson: Pages from a Scientist's Life," 107-113. Vol. 77, no. 2 (February 1996) features D. Halpern, "Visiting TOGA's Past," 233-242; and N.B. Guttman & R.G. Quayle, "A Historical Perspective of U.S. Climate Divisions," 293-303. Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 10, no. 4 (December 1995) features H.C. Bolton & Ian D. Rae, "A Response to Intellectual Isolation: The Correspondence of W.A. Osborne and William Sutherland, 1905-1911," 323-335; A.E. Faggion, "The Australian Groundwater Controversy, 1870-1910," 337-348; J.G. Jenkin & R.W. Home, "Horace Lamb and Early Physics Teaching in Australia," 349-380; and J.P. Wild & V. Radhakrishnan, "John Gatenby Bolton, 1922-1993," 381-391. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 26, part 1 (1995) features Matthias Dörries, "Heinrich Kayser as Philologist of Physics," 1-33; Christophe Lécuyer, "MIT, Progressive Reform, and 'Industrial Service,' 1890-1920," 35-88; Peter J. Ramberg, "Arthur Michael's Critique of Stereochemistry, 1887-1899," 89-138; and Jessica Wang, "Liberals, the Progressive Left, and the Political Economy of Postwar American Science: The National Foundation Debate Revisited," 139-166. Vol. 26, part 2 (1996) includes David Cassidy, "Controlling German Science, II: Bizonal Occupation and the Struggle over West German Science Policy, 1946-1949," 197-239; and Olivier Darrigol, "The Electromagnetic Origins of Relativity Theory," 241-312. History and Technology, vol. 13, no. 1 (1996) features Paul Ceruzzi, "From Scientific Instrument to Everyday Appliance: The Emergence of Personal Computers, 1970-77," 1-31; and Michael J. Neufeld, "Rolf Engel vs. the German Army: A Nazi Career in Rocketry and Repression," 53-72. Irish Astronomical Journal, vol. 23, no. 2 (July 1996) features [The Editors], "A Profile of the Nobel Prizewinner from Dungarvan: Ernest T.S. Walton," 194-197; M. Zboril, "Astronomy in Slovakia: A Brief Description," 205-208; and J. Birmingham (with introduction by P. Mohr), "John Birmingham on 'Coggia's Comet. (Comet III, 1874)'," 209-214. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer 1996) is a special issue commemorating fifty years of computing. Articles include Emerson W. Pugh & William Aspray, "Creating the Computer Industry," 7-17; Arthur L. Norberg, "Changing Computing: The Computing Community and DARPA," 40-53; and John A.N. Lee, "'Those Who Forget the Lessons of History Are Doomed to Repeat It' or, Why I Study the History of Computing," 54-62. ISIS, vol. 87, no. 1 (March 1996) includes Alexei Kojevnikov, "President of Stalin's Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov," 18-50. Vol. 87, no. 2 (June 1996) features Richard H. Beyler, "Targeting the Organism: The Scientific and Cultural Context of Pascual Jordan's Quantum Biology, 1932-1947," 248-273. Physics Today, vol. 49, no. 5 (May 1996) features Andrew P. Brown, "Liverpool and Berkeley: The Chadwick-Lawrence Letters," 34-40. Vol. 49, no. 8 (August 1996) includes Leo M. Hurvich, "Two Little Unknowns: A Color Exhibition and a Science Museum," 47-49. Vol. 49, no. 9 (September 1996) features Jacobus de Nobel (with introduction by Peter Lindenfeld), "The Discovery of Superconductivity," 40-42; and Anthony J.G. Hey, "Memories of Richard Feynman," 44-49. Public Understanding of Science, vol. 5, issue 2 (April 1996) features D. Jacobi, A. Bergeron, & T. Malvesy, "The Popularization of Plate Tectonics: Presenting the Concepts of Dynamics and Time," 75-100; and C.P. Toumey, "Conjuring Science in the Case of Cold Fusion," 121-133. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 108 (July 1996) includes Volker Weidemann, "Albrecht Unsöld (1905-1995)," 553-555; and Laurence W. Fredrick, "Peter van de Kamp (1901-1995)," 556-559. The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 1996) includes S.R.C. Malin, "Geomagnetism at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich," 65-74. Vol. 37, no. 2 (June 1996) features S.C.B. Gascoigne, "The Great Melbourne Telescope and other 19th-century Reflectors," 101-128; and M.G. Adam, "The Changing Face of Astronomy in Oxford (1920-60)," 153-179. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 27B, no. 1 (March 1996) features Sam Richman, "Resolving Discordant Results: Modern Solar Oblateness Experiments," 1-22; and Cathryn Carson, "The Peculiar Notion of Exchange Forces I: Origins in Quantum Mechanics, 1926-1928," 23-45. Others: Midori Ashida, "Faulty Premise," The Sciences, vol. 36, no. 5 (September/October 1996): 15-19; Jeremy Bernstein, "The Reluctant Father of Black Holes," Scientific American, vol. 274, no. 6 (June 1996): 80-85; L. Caruana, "John von Neumann's 'Impossibility Proof' in a Historical Perspective," Physis, vol. 32 (1995): 109-124; Robin Chandler, "The Promise of Research and Development in Physics and Medicine: The Quest for SPEAR and Living with AIDS," California History, vol. 75, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 47-55; Mary R.S. Creese, "Maria Ogilvie Gordon (1864-1939)," Earth Sciences History, vol. 15, no. 1 (1996): 68-75; Ronald E. Doel, "The Lunar Volcanism Controversy," Sky & Telescope, vol. 92, no. 4 (October 1996): 26-30; C.G. Fälthammer, "Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995)," EOS, vol. 76, no. 39 (September 26, 1995): 385-387; Dieter Hoffmann, "Wider die Geistige Trennung," Deutschland Archiv, vol. 29 (July/August 1996): 525-534; S. Kamefuchi, "Summary Talk. Hiroomi Umezawa, His Physics and Research," International Journal of Modern Physics, vol. 10, nos. 13 & 14 (June 30, 1996): 1807-1819; Wolfgang König, "Science-Based Industry or Industry-Based Science? Electrical Engineering in Germany before World War I," Technology and Culture, vol. 37, no. 1 (January 1996): 70-101; Gordon E. Moore, "Intel Memories and the Microprocessor," Daedalus, vol. 125, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 55-80; Jay M. Pasachoff, Roberta J.M. Olson & Martha L. Hazen, "The Earliest Comet Photographs: Usherwood, Bond, and Donati 1858," Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 27, no. 87 (May 1996): 129-145; Dhruv Raina, "Reconfiguring the Centre: The Structure of Scientific Exchanges Between Colonial India and Europe," Minerva, vol. 34, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 161-176; Henk W. de Regt, "Philosophy and the Kinetic Theory of Gases," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 47, no. 1 (March 1996): 31-62; F. Reines, "The Neutrino: From Poltergeist to Particle," Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 68, no. 2 (April 1996): 317-327; Raymond W. Schmitt, "Why Didn't Rayleigh Discover Salt Fingers?," Geophysical Monographs, vol. 94 (1995): 3-10; William Sheehan, "E.E. Barnard's Magnificent Milky Way," Astronomy, vol. 24, no. 6 (June 1996): 32-39; Jennifer Tann, "Space, Time and Innovation Characteristics: The Contribution of Diffusion Process Theory to the History of Technology," History of Technology, vol. 17 (1995): 143-164; Victor l'Vov & Itamar Procaccia, "Turbulence: A Universal Problem," Physics World, vol. 9, no. 8 (August 1996): 35-40; Bastiaan Willink, "On the Structure of a Scientific Golden Age: Social Change, University Investment and Germany's Discontinuous Rise to 19th Century Scientific Hegemony," Berichte zur Wissenschafts-geschichte, vol. 19, no. 1 (March 1996): 35-49.
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