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Recent Publications of Interest
Annals of Science, vol. 55, no.2 (April 1998) features P. Forman, "Molecular Beam Measurements of Nuclear Moments before Magnetic Resonance. Part I: I. I. Rabi and Deflecting Magnets to 1938," 111-160; and N. Robotti & F. Pastorino, "Zeeman's Discovery and the Mass of the Electron," 161-183. Vol. 55, no.3 (July 1998) includes John L. Davis, "Artisans and Savants: The Role of the Academy of Sciences in the Process of Electrical Innovation in France, 1850-1880," 291-314. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, vol. 47, no.138 (June 1997) features A. E. Ten, J. Castro Soler & J. M. López Piñero, "José Monserrat y Riutort y el primer descubrimiento de la fotograffa astronómica: las fotograffas del eclipse del sol de 1860," 3-26; Susann Puchta, "Why and How American Electrical Engineers Developed 'Heaviside's Operational Calculus'," 57-107; and Martha Cecilia Bustamante, "Blackett's Experimental Researches on the Energy of Cosmic Rays," 108-141. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 79, no.1 (January 1998) includes J. M. Lewis, "Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment," 39-60. Vol. 79, no.6 (June 1998) features E. M. Rasmusson, "Tribute to Jerome Namias: The Pioneering Years," 1083-1087; D. R. Cayan, "Tribute to Jerome Namias: The Scripps Era," 1089-1095; and N. A. Phillips, "Carl-Gustaf Rossby: His Times, Personality, and Actions," 1097-1112. Vol. 79, no.7 (July 1998) features K. Hamilton, "Observations of Tropical Stratospheric Winds before World War II," 1367-1371; and T. N. Palmer, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Climate Change: Rossby's Legacy," 1411-1423. Heavy Ion Physics, vol. 7, no.2 (1998) features G. Marx, "Edward Teller at Ninety," 139-153; and Y. Ne'eman, "Edward Teller, the Hungarian, American and Jew, Too," 155-165. Internationale Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Ethik der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, vol. 6, no.1 (1998) includes Jeffrey A. Johnson, "German Women in Chemistry, 1895-1925 (Part I)," 1-21. Vol. 6, no. 2 (1998) features Jeffrey A. Johnson, "German Women in Chemistry, 1925-1945 (Part II)," 65-90; and Reimund Torge, "Der Bau des physikalischen Instituts der Universität Breslau und seine Entwicklung unter Otto Lummer," 104-121. Isis, vol. 89, no.1 (March 1998) features Carl-Henry Geschwind, "Embracing Science and Research: Early Twentieth-Century Jesuits and Seismology in the United States," 27-49. Vol. 89, no.2 (June 1998) includes Richard Staley, "On the Histories of Relativity: The Propagation and Elaboration of Relativity Theory in Participant Histories in Germany, 1905-1911," 263-299. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 52, no.1 (January 1998) includes J. A. Bridge, "Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.S., F.S.A.: A Biographical Appreciation by an Electrical Engineer," 103-120; and Brebis Bleaney, "Centenary of the Zeeman Effect," 131-136. Physics World, vol. 11, no.2 (February 1998) features Michael Berry, "Paul Dirac: The Purest Soul in Physics," 36-40. Vol. 11, no. 4 (April 1998) includes Andrew Brown, "Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, Socialist," 35-38. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas, vol. 20, no.38 (1997) includes Gerardo Palao Poveda, "La recuperación del trabajo en equipo en la investigación quˇmica española de la post-guerra (1940-1965), a través de los Anales de la R.S.E.F.Q.," 189-215. Vol. 20, no.39 (1997) features José Altshuler, "La telegraffa sin hilos en Cuba (1899-1916)," 443-463; Nicolás Babini, "La llegada de la computadora a La Argentina," 465-490; Carmen Magallón, "Mujeres en las ciencias físico-químicas en España: el Instituto Nacional de Ciencias y el Instituto Nacional de Física y Química (1910-1936)," 529-574; Luis Navarro Veguillas, "Sobre una regla de cuantizacin de A. Einstein (1917) y su influencia en L. de Broglie," 597-622; and Joaquim Pla Brunet, "William Thomson i la Teoria Electromagnètica de la llum de Maxwell: Fonts d'inspiració i actituds de refús," 637-663. Science & Technology Review (July/August 1998) is a special issue celebrating the 90th birthday of Edward Teller. Articles in this issue include Arnie Heller, "Still Shaking up Science Today," 6-9; Gloria Wilt (with Bart Hacker), "Gifts of a Fertile Mind," 10-21; and Katie Walter, "For the Love of Science," 22-26. Scientific American, vol. 279, no.1 (July 1998) includes William Tobin, "Léon Foucault," 70-77. Vol. 279, no.3 (September 1998) features Eric R. Scerri, "The Evolution of the Periodic System," 78-83. Social Studies of Science, vol. 28, no.2 (April 1998) features Léa Velho & Osvaldo Pessoa, Jr., "The Decision-Making Process in the Construction of the Synchrotron Light National Laboratory in Brazil," 195-219; and Jeroen van der Sluijs, Josée van Eijndhoven, Simon Shackley & Brian Wynne, "Anchoring Devices in Science for Policy: The Case of Consensus around Climate Sensitivity," 291-323. Vol. 28, no.3 (June 1998) includes Maggie Mort & Mike Michael, "Human and Technological 'Redundancy': Phantom Intermediaries in a Nuclear Submarine Industry," 355-400. Weather, vol. 53, no.1 (January 1998) includes J. Insley, "Pen Portraits of Presidents--Charles Brooke, FRS," 24-26; Vol. 53, no.3 (March 1998) includes J. Burton, "Pen Portraits of Presidents--Sir Henry George Lyons," 90-92; Vol. 53, no.4 (April 1998) includes A. McConnell, "Pen Portraits of Presidents--Edward Mawley," 128-129; Vol. 53, no.7 (July 1998) features P. M. Kelly, P. D. Jones, A. Robock, and K. R. Briffa, "The Contribution of Hubert H. Lamb to the Study of Volcanic Effects on Climate," 209-222; and A. Perry & J. Mayes, "The Lamb Weather Type Catalogue," 222-229. Others--Physics and Geophysics: [The Editors], "The Unsolved Riddle of Ettore Majorana," Cern Courier, vol. 38, no.5 (Summer 1998): 28-33; Kai-Henrik Barth, "Science and Politics in Early Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations," Physics Today, vol. 51, no.3 (March 1998): 34-39; Olivier Darrigol, "Aux confins de l'électrodynamique maxwellienne: Ions et électrons en 1897," Revue d'histoire des sciences, vol. 51, no.1 (January-March 1998): 5-34; Max Dresden, "The Klopsteg Memorial Lecture: Fundamentality and Numerical Scales--Diversity and the Structure of Physics," American Journal of Physics, vol. 66, no.6 (June 1998): 468-482; David Alan Grier, "The Math Tables Project of the WPA: The Reluctant Start of the Computing Era," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 20, no.3 (July-September 1998): 33-50; M. Hontarrède, "Meteorology and the Maritime World: 150 Years of Constructive Cooperation," Bulletin of the World Meteorological Organization, vol. 47, no.1 (January 1998): 15-26; John Hudson and Roy King, "British Landmarks in Seismology," Astronomy and Geophysics, vol. 39, no.1 (February 1998): 29-30; Nicolaas A. Rupke, "The End of History in the Early Picturing of Geological Time," History of Science, vol. 36, no. 111 (March 1998): 61-90. Others--Astronomy and Space Sciences: Gordon Brown, "Radio astronomy and the BAA," Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 108, no. 1 (February 1998): 29-32; George B. Field, "Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914-1997)," Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 110, no. 745 (March 1998): 215-222; Herbert Friedman, "The Invisible Universe of X-rays and Gamma Rays," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 141, no.4 (December 1997): 403-416; Monique Gros, "Bernard Lyot (1897-1952)," l'Astronomie, vol. 112 (January 1998): 8-12; William K. Hartmann, "The Great Solar System Revision," Astronomy, vol. 26, no.8 (August 1998): 40-45.
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