Recent Publications of Interest
Compiled by Martha Keyes

American Journal of Physics, vol. 69, no. 3 (March 2001) features Joseph F. Mulligan, "Emil Wiechert (1861-1928): Esteemed Seismologist, Forgotten Physicist," 277-287. Vol. 69, no. 4 (April 2001) includes Willis E. Lamb, Jr., "Super Classical Quantum Mechanics: The Best Interpretation of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics," 413-422. Vol. 69, no. 8 (August 2001) includes F. E. Irons, "Poincaré's 1911-12 Proof of Quantum Discontinuity Interpreted as Applying to Atoms," 879-884.

Annalen der Physik, vol. 10, nos. 1-2 (2001) is Part II of a special issue commemorating the quantum theory centenary. Articles in this issue include D. E. Pritchard, A. D. Cronin, S. Gupta, and D. A. Komorowski, "Atomic Optics: Old Ideas, Current Technology and New Results," 35-54; J. I. Friedman, "The Discovery of Quarks," 109-121; K. Kleinknecht, "Violation of Matter-Antimatter Symmetry," 133-150; M. Eckert, "The Emergence of Quantum Schools: Munich, Göttingen and Copenhagen as New Centers of Atomic Theory," 151-162; D. Herschbach, "Molecular Beams Entwined with Quantum Theory: A Bouquet for Max Planck," 163-176; and J. S. Rigden, "The Quantization of the Atom in Three Acts," 177-186.

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 55, no. 3 (2001) features J. Earman, "Lambda: The Constant That Refuses to Die," 189-220. Vol. 55, no. 5 (2001) includes A. Dahan Dalmedico, "History and Epistemology of Models: Meteorology (1946-1963) as a Case Study," 395-422.

Astronomy, vol. 29, no. 4 (April 2001) includes Jim Schefter, "When Yuri Took Flight," 36-41. Vol. 29, no. 5 (May 2001) features Richard Jakiel, "The Man Who Tracked Nebulae [E. E. Barnard]," 52-57. Vol. 29, no. 6 (June 2001) includes Robert Zimmerman, "Inside-Out Cosmology," 38-43. Vol. 29, no. 9 (September 2001) features Adam Frank, "Probing the Birth of Starlight," 38-44; and Rosemary Sullivant, "On the Road with John Dobson," 68-71.

Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 42, no. 1 (February 2001) includes Peter D. Hingley, "The First Photographic Eclipse?," 18-22. Vol. 42, no. 2 (April 2001) features Agustín Udías, "Serving God and Science," 23-24.

Centaurus, vol. 43, no. 1 (2001) features Helge Kragh, "Before Quantum Chemistry: Erich Hückel and the Physics-Chemistry Interface," 1-16. Vol. 43, no. 2 (2001) features Michael A. Day, "Oppenheimer on the Nature of Science," 73-112.

CERN Courier, vol. 41, no. 2 (March 2001) includes Keith Olive and Misha Shifman, "Glimpses of Superhistory," 19-21. Vol. 41, no. 4 (May 2001) features Jack Steinberger, "When the Bubble Chamber First Burst Onto the Scene," 24-28. Vol. 41, no. 6 (July/August 2001) includes [Editors] "Super Proton Synchrotron Marks Its 25^th Birthday," 24-26.

Foundations of Physics, vol. 31, no. 4 (April 2001) is a special issue in celebration of Martin C. Gutzwiller's 75^th birthday. Articles in this issue include Daniel Kleppner and John B. Delos, "Beyond Quantum Mechanics: Insights from the Work of Martin Gutzwiller," 593-612; and John S. Briggs and Jan M. Rost, "On the Derivation of the Time-Dependent Equation of Schrödinger," 693-712. Vol. 31, no. 5 (May 2001) features Marco Mamone Capria, "On the Conventionality of Simultaneity in Special Relativity," 775-818.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 31, part 2 (2001) includes Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, "The Construction of a Discipline: Materials Science in the United States," 223-248; and Elizabeth Paris, "Lords of the Ring: The Fight to Build the First U.S. Electron-Positron Collider," 355-380.

History and Technology, vol. 17, no. 2 (2000) features Ivan Vladimirovich Zavidonov, "Sputniks, Explorers and Propaganda: The Discovery of the Earth's Radiation Belts," 99-124; and Edward Jones-Imhotep, "Disciplining Technology: Electronic Reliability, Cold-War Military Culture and the Topside Ionogram," 125-175.

Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 32, no. 106 (February 2001) features Barbara J. Becker, "Visionary Memories: William Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics," 43-62. Vol. 32, no. 107 (May 2001) includes Donald E. Osterbrock, "Herman Zanstra, Donald H. Menzel, and the Zanstra Method of Nebular Astrophysics," 93-108.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 4, no. 1 (June 2001) includes Nidhal Guessoun and Karim Meziane, "Visibility of the Thin Lunar Crest: The Sociology of an Astronomical Problem (A Case Study)," 1-14; David W. Hughes, "Six Stages in the History of the Astronomical Unit," 15-28; Wayne Orchiston, "The English Equatorial Mounting and the History of the Fletcher Telescope," 29-42; and Luisa Pigatto Valeria Zanini, "Spectroscopic Observations of the 1874 Transit of Venus: The Italian Party at Muddapur, Eastern India," 43-58.

Mercury, vol. 30, no. 2 (March/April 2001) includes William Sheehan, "The Historic Hunt for Moons," 23-27. Vol. 30, no. 3 (May/June 2001) features Donald E. Osterbrock, "Astronomer for All Seasons: Heber D. Curtis," 24-31.

Minerva, vol. 38, no. 4 (2000) features Peter J. Westwick, "Secret Science: A Classified Community in the National Laboratories," 363-391; and Jacob Darwin Hamblin, "Visions of International Scientific Cooperation: The Case of Oceanic Science, 1920-1955," 393-423.

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 55, no. 1 (January 2001) is a special millennium issue. Articles in this issue include Sir Alan Cook, "Time and the Royal Society," 9-27; Brian J. Ford, "The Royal Society and the Microscope," 29-49; Raymond Hide, "Zenographic Longitude Systems and Jupiter's Differential Rotation," 69-79; G. E. Fogg, "The Royal Society and the South Seas," 81-103; Sir John Meurig Thomas, "Predictions," 105-117; and Sir Alan Cook, "Centenary of the NPL," 147-160. Vol. 55, no. 2 (May 2001) features I. Grattan-Guinness, "The Contributions of J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S., to Mechanics and Mathematical Physics," 253-265; Rajinder Singh and Falk Riess, "The 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics: A Close Decision?," 267-283; and B. Bleaney, "Derek Ainslie Jackson (1906-1982): Some Recollections of a Great European Spectroscopist," 285-287.

Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 48, no. 1 (January 2001) includes Aubert Daigneault and Arturo Sangalli, "Einstein's Static Universe: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Back?," 9-16. Vol. 48, no. 8 (September 2001) features G. I. Barenblatt, "George Keith Batchelor (1920-2000) and David George Crighton (1942-2000) Applied Mathematicians," 800-806.

Physics in Perspective, vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2001) features R. V. Pound, "Weighing Photons, II," 4-51; B. Bederson, "SEDs at Los Alamos: A Personal Memoir," 52-75; L. Badash, "Nuclear Winter: Scientists in the Political Arena," 76-105; and W. L. Reiter, "Stefan Meyer: Pioneer of Radioactivity," 106-127. Vol. 3, no. 2 (June 2001) includes Joseph F. Mulligan, "The Aether and Heinrich Hertz's The Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New Form," 136-164; Kostas Gavroglu, "From Defiant Youth to Conformist Adulthood: The Sad Story of Liquid Helium," 165-188; Klaus Hentschel and Gerhard Rammer, "Physicists at the University of Göttingen, 1945-1955," 189-209; and Kent W. Staley, "Lost Origins of the Third Generation of Quarks: Theory, Philosophy, and Experiment," 210-229.

Physics Today, vol. 54, no. 5 (May 2001) includes Peter Grünberg, "Layered Magnetic Structures: History, Highlights, Applications," 31-37. Vol. 54, no. 6 (June 2001) features Joseph Rotblat, "The Early Days of Pugwash," 50-55. Vol. 54, no. 7 (July 2001) includes Donald G. McDonald, "The Nobel Laureate [Bardeen] Versus the Graduate Student [Josephson]," 46-51. Vol. 54, no. 8 (August 2001) features Alex E. S. Green, "A Physicist with the Air Force in World War II [Green]," 40-44.

Sky & Telescope, vol. 102, no. 1 (July 2001) includes Richard P. Binzel, "A New Century for Asteroids," 44-51. Vol. 102, no. 3 (September 2001) features Carolyn Collins Petersen, "The Universe Through Gravity's Lens," 32-39; and Sergey Maslikov, "Amateur Astronomy in Russia: Past, Present, and Future," 66-73.

Social Studies of Science, vol. 31, no. 2 (April 2001) is a special issue on science and the Cold War. Articles in this issue include David K. van Keuren, "Cold War Science in Black and White: U.S. Intelligence Gathering and Its Scientific Cover at the Naval Research Laboratory, 1948-62," 207-229; and John Cloud, "Imaging the World in a Barrel: CORONA and the Clandestine Convergence of the Earth Sciences," 231-251.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 32B, no. 1 (March 2001) features Michel Ghins and Tim Budden, "The Principle of Equivalence," 33-51; and James Mattingly, "The Replication of Hertz's Cathode Ray Experiments," 53-75. Vol. 32B, no. 2 (June 2001) includes Henk W. De Regt, "Spacetime Visualisation and the Intelligibility of Physical Theories," 243-265; and Stephan Hartmann, "Effective Field Theories, Reductionism and Scientific Explanation," 267-304.

Technology and Culture, vol. 42, no. 1 (January 2001) includes J. Samuel Walker, "Regulating against Nuclear Terrorism: The Domestic Safeguards Issue, 1970-1979," 107-132. Vol. 42, no. 2 (April 2001) features Stuart W. Leslie, "Regional Disadvantage: Replicating Silicon Valley in New York's Capital Region," 236-264; and W. Patrick McCray, "What Makes a Failure? Designing a New National Telescope, 1975-1984," 265-291.

Others:

Leo Beranek, "Roots of the Internet: A Personal History," Massachusetts Historical Review, vol. 2 (2000): 55-75; Anna Binnie, "Australia's Atomic Conspiracy Theory," Australasian Science, vol. 22, no. 7 (August 2001): 29-31; David Colley, "Deadly Accuracy," American Heritage of Invention & Technology, vol. 16, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 44-50; Nicole de Messières, "Libby and the Interdisciplinary Aspect of Radiocarbon Dating," Radiocarbon, vol. 43, no. 1 (2001): 1-5; V. L. Ginzburg, "About Some Unscrupulous Historians of Physics," VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Problems in the History of Science and Technology] [in Russian] no. 4 (2000): 5-14; David Goodstein, "In Defense of Robert Andrews Millikan," American Scientist, vol. 89, no. 1 (2001): 54-60; G. A. Goncharov and L. D. Ryabev, "The Development of the First Soviet Atomic Bomb," Physics_Uspekhi, vol. 44, no. 1 (January 2001): 71-93; Gerald Holton, "Henri Poincaré, Marcel Duchamp and Innovation in Science and Art," Leonardo, vol. 34, no. 2 (2001): 127-134; Scott G. Knowles and Stuart W. Leslie, "`Industrial Versailles': Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T," Isis, vol. 92, no. 1 (March 2001): 1-33; Stephen M. Maurer, "Idea Man [Fritz Zwicky]," Beamline, vol. 31, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 21-27; Nadia Robotti and Massimiliano Badino, "Max Planck and the `Constants of Nature'," Annals of Science, vol. 58, no. 2 (April 2001): 137-162; Silvan S. Schweber, "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus Unbound," Physics World, vol. 14, no. 2 (February 2001): 39-46; Klaus B. Staubermann, "Tying the Knot: Skill, Judgement and Authority in the 1870s Leipzig Spiritistic Experiments [including Karl Zöllner]," British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 34, no. 120 (March 2001): 67-79; Reimund Torge, "Otto Lummer, Fritz Reiche, Mieczyslaw Wolfke und `Die Lehre von der Bildentstehung im Microskop von Ernst Abbe'," Jenaer Jahrbuch zur Techik- und Industriegeschichte, vol. 2 (2000): 24-48; and J. Lamar Worzel, "Tracing the Origins of the Lamont Geological Observatory," Eos, vol. 81, no. 46 (14 November 2000): 549-550, 553.

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