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American Journal of Physics, vol. 70, no. 2 (February 2002) features Stephen G. Brush, "Cautious Revolutionaries: Maxwell, Planck, Hubble," 119-128. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 37 (1999) includes A.G.W. Cameron, "Adventures in Cosmogony," 1-36. Vol. 38 (2000) features Donald E. Osterbrock, "A Fortunate Life in Astronomy," 1-33. Vol. 39 (2001) has Victor M. Blanco, "Telescopes, Red Stars, and Chilean Skies," 1-18. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, vol. 49 (1999) includes J. David Jackson, "Snapshots of a Physicist's Life," 1-34. Vol. 51 (2001) features G.E. Brown, "Fly with Eagles," 1-21. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 29, (2001) includes G. Schubert, "Breakthroughs in Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Earth and Planets," 1-16. Archives des Sciences, vol. 54, no. 2 (September 2001) includes K. Von Meyenn, "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Wolfgang Pauli and the Transition from the Old to the New Quantum Theory," 117-128. Centaurus, vol 43, no. 3-4 (2001) has A.S. Jacobsen, "Spirit and Unity: Oersted's Fascination by Winterl's Chemistry," 184-218; O. Darrigol, "The Historian's Disagreement over the Meaning of Planck's Quantum," 219-239; D. Hoffman, "On the Experimental Context of Planck's Foundation of Quantum Theory," 240-259; R. Singh, "Born's Role in the Lattice Dynamic Controversy," 260-277; L. Gislen and J.C. Eade, "South East Asian Eclipse Calculations," 278-307. CERN Courier, vol. 41, no. 10 (December 2001) includes Helmut Rechenberg, "Werner Heisenberg: the Columbus of quantum mechanics," 18-20; "Bose-Einstein condensation revisited," 21-23; Heath B. O'Connell and Michael E. Peskin, "Database lists the top-cited physics papers," 27-29. Isis, vol. 22, no. 1 (March 2001) features Scott G. Knowles and Stuart W. Leslie "`Industrial Versailles': Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and ATT," 1-33. Vol. 22, no. 3 (September 2001) has John Krige, "Distrust and Discovery: The Case of the Heavy Bosons at CERN," 517-540. History of Science, vol. 39, pt. 4 (December 2001) includes Yves Gingras, "What Did Mathematics Do to Physics," 383-416. Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 32, pt. 4 (August 2001) includes Sara Schechner, "The Material Culture of Astronomy in Daily Life: Sundials, Science, and Social Change," 189-222; Robert Westman, "Kepler's Early Physical-Astrological Problematic," 227-236; Joann Eisberg, "Making a Science of Observational Cosmology: The Cautious Optimism of Beatrice Tinsley," 263-278. Vol. 32, pt. 4 (November 2001) features Bradley Schaefer, "The Transit of Venus and the Notorious Black Drop Effect," 325-336. Minerva, vol. 39, no. 2 (2001) includes Roy McLeod, "Women in Science: International Perspectives," 151-152; Sue Rabbitt Roff, "Nuclear Revisionism," 259-264. Vol. 39, no. 3 has Ronald Rainger, "Constructing a Landscape for Postwar Science: Roger Revelle, the Scripps Institution, and the University of California, San Diego," 327-352. Vol. 39, no. 4 (2001) includes several essays on the centennial of the Nobel Prize including John Jenkin, "A Unique Partnership: William and Lawrence Bragg and the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics," 373-392; John Krige, "The 1984 Nobel Physics Prize for Heterogeneous Engineering," 425-443. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 55, no. 3 (2001) includes D.A.H. Wilson, "Sea Lions, Greasepaint, and U-boats: Admiralty Scientists Turn to the Music Hall in 1916," 425-454; U.W. Andt, "Instrumentation in X-ray Crystallography," 457-472; Sir Alan Cook, "Edmond Halley and the Magnetic Field of the Earth," 473-490. Physics in Perspective, vol. 3, no. 2 (September 2001) includes B. Pippard, "Dispersion in the Ether: Light over the Water," 258-270; J.R. Goodstein, "A Conversation with Franco Rasetti," 271-313; R.G. Arns, "Detecting the Neutrino," 314-334; E. Harper, "George Gamow: Scientific Amateur and Polymath," 335-372. Vol. 3, no. 4 (November 2001) has David E. Rowe, "Einstein Meets Hilbert: At the Crossroads of Physics and Mathematics," 379-424; Alan Chalmers, "Maxwell, Mechanism, and the Nature of Electricity," 425-438; Xiang Chen, "Measuring Reflective Power with the Eye," 439-461; and Wolfgang L. Reiter, "Vienna: A Random Walk in Science." Physics Today, vol. 54, no. 12 (December 2001) includes Jessica Wang, "Edward Condon and the Cold War Politics of Loyalty," 35-41. Vol. 55, no. 1 (January 2002) has Spencer Weart, "Preserving the Heritage of Discovery," 28-34. Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 36, no. 3 (2000) includes M.M. R. Williams, "The Development of Nuclear Reactor Theory in the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (Division of Atomic Energy) 1943-1946," 239-321. Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 73, no. 3 (July 2001) includes J.D. Jackson and L.B. Okun, "Historical Roots of Gauge Invariance," 663-680. Sky & Telescope, Vol. 102. no. 5 (November 2001) includes Leif J. Robinson, "Sixty Years of Hindsight," 30-37; Alan Hirshfield, "The Race to Measure the Cosmos," 38-47. Vol. 102, no. 6 (December 2001) has Ken Croswell, "Wondering in the Dark," 44-51; Yuri Petrunin and Eduard Trigubov, "Dmitri Maksutov: The Man and His Telescopes," 52-62. Social Studies of Science, vol. 31, no. 5 (October 2001) features Wesley Shrum, Ivan Chompalov, and Joel Genuth, "Trust, Conflict, and Performance in Scientific Collaborations," 681-730. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 32B, no. 3 (September 2001) featured Jos Uffink, "Bluff your Way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics," 305-394; Jordi Cat, "On Understanding: Maxwell on the Methods of Illustration and Scientific Metaphor," 395-442. Vol. 32B, no. 4 (December 2001) is a special issue on the conceptual foundations of statistical physics and includes papers by Jeffrey Bub, "Maxwell's Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation," 569-580; Craig Callender, "Taking Thermodynamics too Seriously," 539-554. Technology and Culture, vol. 42, no. 3 (July 2001) includes Gary L. Frost, "Inventing Schemes and Strategies: The Making and Selling of the Fessenden Oscillator," 462-488. Vol. 42, no. 4 (October 2001) has Stephen Johnson, "Samuel Phillips and the Taming of Apollo," 685-709.
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