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Recent Publications of Interest
Annals of Science, vol. 56, no. 1 (Jan. 1999) includes P.W. Hunter, "An Unofficial Community: American Mathematical Statisticians before 1935," 47-68; and B. Bensaude-Vincent, "Atomism and Positivism: A Legend about French Chemistry," 81-94. Astronomical Journal, vol. 117, no. 1 (Jan. 1999) features Owen Gingerich, "Benjamin Apthorp Gould and the Founding of the Astronomical Journal," 1-5; Marc Rothenberg, "Observers, Publications, and Surveys: Astronomy in the United States in 1849," 6-8; Dorrit Hoffleit, "The Astronomical Journal at Yale: In Context with Before and After," 9-11; and Katherine Bracher, "The Astronomical Journal: A Mirror of Astronomy," 12-16. Cern Courier, vol. 38, no. 7, (Oct. 1998) includes Reinhard Stock, "Niels Bohr an the 20th Century," 19. Vol. 38, no. 8 (Nov. 1998) includes Leonid Shirshov, "Applied Superconductivity in Russia," 27; "Twenty-five Years of Neutral Currents," 28-30; and "25 Years of Asymptotic Freedom," 31. Vol. 39, no. 1 (Feb. 1999) includes B. Gottschalk, et al., "Synchrotron Survivor to Bow Out After 50 Years," 22-25; and Llewellyn Smith, "The Prospects for Particle Physics," 33-36. EOS, vol. 79, no. 31 (Aug. 4, 1998) includes Koichiro Tsuruda, "Tatsundo Yamamoto (1956-1998)," 371. Vol. 79, no. 34 (Aug. 25, 1998) includes James Rodger Fleming, "Arrhenius and Current Climate Concerns: Continuity or a 100-year Gap?" 405 & 409. Vol. 79, no. 45 (Nov. 10, 1998) includes T.P. Armstrong, M.K. Bird, and I. Engle, "David Breed Beard (1922-1998)," 547. Vol. 79, no. 46 (Nov. 17, 1998) includes W. Schöder, "Geophysics Contributed to the Radical Change from Classical to Modern Physics 100 Years Ago," 559 & 562. Vol. 80, no. 3 (Jan. 19, 1999) includes Miora Mandea Alexandrescu et al., "Looking Back on a Half Century of Repeat Magnetic Measurements in France," 25-26. Physics World, vol. 11, no. 9 (Sept. 1998) includes John Campbell, "Ernest Rutherford: Scientist Supreme," 35-40. Vol. 11, no. 12 (Dec. 1998) includes Andrew Whitaker, "John Bell and the Most Profound Discovery of Science," 29-34; and Soraya Boudia, "Marie Curie: Scientific Entrepreneur," 35-39. Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 70, no. 2 (April 1998) includes Martin C. Gutzwiller, "Moon-Earth-Sun: The Oldest Three Body Problem," 589-639. Vol. 71, Special Issue (1999) commemorating the centenary of the American Physical Society, features reviews of the century's highlights as follows: Hans A. Bethe, "Quantum Theory," S1-S5; Hans A. Bethe, "Nuclear Physics," S6-S15; A. Pais, "Theoretical Physics," S16-S24; Val. L. Fitch, "Elementary Particle Physics: The Origins," S25-S32; George Field, "Astrophysics," S33-S40; Irwin I. Shapiro, "A Century of Astrophysics," S34-S53; Robert V. Pound, "From Radar to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance," S54-S58; W. Kohn, "An Essay on Condensed Matter Physics in the Twentieth Century," S59-S77; Daniel Kleppner, "A Short History of Atomic Physics in the Twentieth Century," S78-S84; Frank Wilczek, "Quantum Field Theory," S85-S95; Mary K. Gaillard, Paul D. Grannis, and Frank J.Scuilli, "The Standard Model of Particle Physics," S96-S111; John H. Schwarz and Nathan Seiberg, "String Theory, Supersymmetry, Unification, and All That," S112-S120; W.K.H. Panofsky and M. Breidenbach, "Accelerators and Detectors," S121-S132; V.W. Hughes and T. Kinoshita, "Anomalous g Values of the Electron and Muon," S133-S139; L. Wolfenstein, "Neutrino Physics," S140-S144; Michael S. Turner and J. Anthony Tyson, "Cosmology at the Millennium," S145-S164; James W. Cronin, "Cosmic Rays: The Most Energetic Particles in the Universe," S165-S172; Lyman Page and David Wilkinson, "Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation," S173-S179; Gary T. Horowitz and Saul A. Teukolsky, "Black Holes," S180-S186; Rainer Weiss, "Gravitational Radiation," S187-S196; Bernard Sadoulet, "Deciphering the Nature of Dark Matter," S198-S204; E.M. Henley and J.P. Schiffer, "Nuclear Physics at the End of the Century," S205-S219; Edwin E. Salpeter, "Stellar Nucleosynthesis," S220-S222; Sheldon Datz et al., "Atomic Physics," S223-S241; T. Hänsch and W. Walther "Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics," S242-S252; Carl E. Wieman, David D. Pritchard, and David J. Wineland, "Atom Cooling, Trapping, and Quantum Manipulation," S253-S262; W. E. Lamb et al., "Laser Physics: Quantum Controversy in Action," S263-S273; L. Mandel, "Quantum Effects in One- and Two-Photon Interference," S274-S282; N. Bloembergen, "From Nanosecond to Femtosecond Science," S283-S287; Anton Zeilinger, "Experiment and Foundations of Quantum Physics," S288-S297; Horst L. Stormer, Daniel C. Tsui, and Arthur C. Gossard, "The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect," S298-S305; Yoseph Imry and Rolf Landauer, "Conductance Viewed as Transmission," S306-S312; J.R. Schrieffer and M. Tinkham, "Superconductivity," S313-S317; A.J. Leggett, "Superfluidity," S318-323; G. Binning and H. Rohrer, " In Touch with Atoms," S324-S330; P. Chaudhari and M.S. Dresselhaus, "Material Science," S331-S335; Michael Riordan, Lillian Hodderson, and Conyers Herring, "The Invention of the Transistor," S336-S345; Joel L. Lebowitz, "Statistical Mechanics: A Selective Review of Two Central Issues," S346-S358; H. Eugene Stanley, "Scaling, Universality, and Renormalization: Three Pillars of Modern Critical Phenomena," S358-S366; Thomas A. Witten, "Insights from Soft Condensed Matter," S367-S373; P.G. de Gennes, "Granular Material: A Tentative View," S374-S382; Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, "Fluid Turbulence," S383-S395; J.P. Gallub and J.S. Langer, "Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Physics," S396-S403; T.M. O Neil and F.V. Coroniti, "The Collisionless Nature of High-Temperature Plasmas," S404-S410; Dudley Herschbach, "Chemical Physics: Molecular Clouds, Clusters, and Corrals," S411-S418; Hans Frauenfelder, Peter G. Wolynes, Robert H. Austin, "Biological Physics," S419-S430; J.J. Hopfield, "Brain, Neural Networks, and Computation," S431-S437; D.M. Ceperley, "Microscopic Simulations in Physics," S438-S443; William R. Hendee, "Physics and Applications of Medical Imaging," S444-S450; Charles E. Till, "Nuclear Fission Reactors," S451-S455; T. Kenneth Fowler, "Nuclear Power Fusion," S456-S459; Sidney D. Drell, "Physics and U.S. National Security," S460-S470; R.E. Slusher, "Laser Technology," S471-S479; W.R. Brinkman and D.V. Lang, "Physics and the Communications Industry," S480-S488. Scientific American, vol. 279, no. 4 (Oct. 1998) includes Albert E. Moyer, "Simon Newcomb: Astronomer with an Attitue," 88-93. Vol. 280, no. 3 (March 1999) includes Gennady Gorelik, "The Metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov," 98-101. Space Technology, vol. 18, no. 4/6 (1998) includes H.J. Haubaold and W. Wamsteker, "Worldwide Development of Astronomy: The Story of a Decade of UN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science," 149-156; and Xu Jianping, "The Development of Meteorological Satellite System in China," 161-168. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 29B, no. 2 (June 1998) includes Francisco Flores, "Einstein's 1935 Derivation of E = mc² ," 223-243. Vol. 29B, no. 3 (Sept. 1998) includes David Kaiser, "A is just a ² : Pedagogy, Practice, and the Reconstitution of General Relativity, 1942-1975," 321-338; Jeff Hughes, " Modernists with a Vengeance : Changing Cultures of Theory in Nuclear Science, 1920-1930," 339-367; and Peter Galison, "Feynman's War: Modeling Weapons, Modeling Nature," 391-434. Vol. 29B, no. 4 (Dec. 1998) includes John Earman and John D. Norton, "Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell's Demon. Part I. From Maxwell to Szilard," 435-471; Klaus Hentschel, "A Breakdown of Intersubjective Measurement: The Case of Solar-Rotation Measurements in the Early 20th Century," 473-507; and Jonathan Bain, "Whitehead s Theory of Gravitation," 547-574. Technology and Culture, vol. 39, no. 4 (Oct. 1998) includes Jeffrey K. Stine and Joel A. Tarr, "At the Intersection of Histories: Technology and the Environment," 601-640; and Matthias Heyman, "Signs of Hubris: The Shaping of Wind Technology Styles in Germany, Denmark, and the United States," 461-470. Weather, vol. 53, no. 8 (August 1998) includes R. Hankins, "Pen Portraits of Presidents: Robrt Dundas Thompson, MD, CM, FRS," 266-268. Vol. 54, no. 1 (January 1999) includes A. D. Lambert, "Pen Portraits of Presidents: Professor Sir John Knox Laughton, RN," 27-30. Also: H.C. Bolton and Nicola H. Williams, "Scientific Instrument Makers and Dealers in Victoria, 1840-1914," Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 12, no. 1 (1999): 15-82; D.J. Carson, "Climate Modeling: Achievement and Prospects," Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 125, no. 533 (Jan. 1999): 1-27; Gale Christianson, "Mastering the Universe," Astronomy, vol. 27, no. 2 (Feb. 1999): 60-66; Steven J. Dick, Wayne Orchiston, and Tom Love, "Simon Newcomb, William Harkness and the Nineteenth-century American Transit of Venus Expedition," Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 29, part 3, no. 96 (Aug. 1998): 221-255; Audouin Dollfus, "History of Planetary Science. The Pic du Midi Planetary Observation Project: 1941-1971," Planetary and Space Science 46 (1998): 1037-73; David H. Feedman, "Faster than a Speeding Photon," Discover, vol. 19, no. 8 (Aug. 1998): 70-79; "Robert Havermann (1910-1982)," Hyle, vol. 4, no. 2 (Nov. 1998): 163-166; Andreas Kleinert, "Die deutschsprachigen physikalischen Wörterbücher des 18. Jahrhunderts...," Das Achzenhnte Jahrhundert 22 (1998): 129-138; Robert Mathews, "Dirac's Coincidences 60 Years On," Astronomy & Geophysics, vol. 39, issue 6 (Dec. 1998): 12-20; W. Orchiston, "C/1881 K1: A Forgotten Great Comet of the Nineteenth Century," Irish Astronomical Journal, vol. 26, no. 1 (Jan. 1999): 33-44.
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