1991 Index Number 15 January 3, 1991 THE CASE FOR METALLIC HYDROGEN DIAMOND IS THE "MOLECULE OF THE YEAR," THE COLD DARK MATTER THE PREDICTIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS PHYSICS NEWS IN 1990 SSC DETECTORS MAY COST HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. Number 16 January 10, 1991 IN BALLISTIC ELECTRON EMISSION MICROSCOPY (BEEM) THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON SELF ORGANIZED CRITICALITY THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC) WOMEN RECEIVED 8% OF THE PHYSICS PHD's Number 17 January 17, 1991 ROSAT, THE GERMAN X-RAY SATELLITE A SUPERCONDUCTING FLUX FLOW TRANSISTOR (SFFT) LOW-TEMPERATURE RESEARCH MAY BE HAMPERED BY COSMIC RAYS PHYSICS HAD THE LOWEST "UNCITEDNESS" Number 18 January 23, 1991 THE MOST PRECISE ISOTOPE SHIFT TAU NEUTRINOS WERE NOT DETECTED BY THE ASTRO GAMMA-RAY ANNIHILATION RADIATION MODULATION-DOPED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (MODFETS) Number 19 January 29, 1991 IMAGES OF AN ELECTROPLATED MONOLAYER OF COPPER THE STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN) FLUORESCENCE FROM SINGLE IMPURITY MOLECULES THE MILKY WAY HAS BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED AT A WAVELENGTH "SCIENCE: THE END OF THE FRONTIER?" Number 20 February 5, 1991 HYDROGEN REDUCTION OF RUBY EXPLOITING CHAOS RATHER THAN AVOIDING IT ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA's) THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD Number 21 February 13, 1991 THE QUANTUM HALL RESISTANCE IS THE SAME EVIDENCE FOR A NEUTRINO WITH A MASS OF 17 keV DOES DARK MATTER CONSIST OF BARYONS? A RECORD HIGH MATTER DENSITY Number 22 February 21, 1991 CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS IN MESOSCOPIC METALS FRACTAL SPACE-FILLING BEARINGS THE DEUTERIUM-TO-HYDROGEN RATIO IS 120 TIMES HIGHER ON VENUS THERE ARE MORE TRANSISTORS ON EARTH THAN PEOPLE COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS CLASSROOMS Number 23 February 28, 1991 AN ERUPTION ON COMET HALLEY AN X-RAY SURVEY OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD (LMC) NEUROMAGNETISM OLBERS' PARADOX Number 24 7 March 1991 AXIONS WITH A MASS OF 3 eV TO 8 eV THE TOP QUARK MUST EXIST PRODUCING ORIENTED POLYMERS THE SOUTH POLE WILL BE THE SITE Number 25 March, 14 1991 NAKED SINGULARITIES PRESENT A PROBLEM FOR GENERAL RELATIVITY FLUX LINES IN SUPERCONDUCTORS NEW GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES THE MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF CARBON-60 CHARLES PETIT Number 26 March, 22 1991 THE DECADE OF DISCOVERY IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS THE WOODSTOCK OF CARBON? THE SOLENOIDAL DETECTOR COLLABORATION THE RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLIDER (RHIC) Number 27 March 28, 1991 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS IN THE 1990's MATERIALS SCIENCE IN THE 1990's A LASER-DRIVEN SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE THE SPEED OF LIGHT CAN BE REDUCED BY A FACTOR OF 10 Number 28 April 4, 1991 SCREW DISLOCATIONS IN SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS SOLAR SEISMOLOGY INVESTIGATING CP VIOLATION A STREAMER OF GAS AT THE GALACTIC CENTER Number 29 April 11, 1991 GRAND UNIFIED THEORIES DO NUCLEAR MOLECULES EXIST? OZONE DEPLETION IS OCCURRING TWICE AS FAST THE GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATORY SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES Number 30 April 18 1991 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES STUDY ON GLOBAL WARMING VENUS DOES NOT HAVE "'MID-OCEAN" RIDGES THEORIES THAT RIVAL THE BIG BANG THE COST OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPERCOLLIDER PHOTON SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (PSTM) Number 31 April 26, 1991 BUCKYBALLS ARE SUPERCONDUCTING A DARK SUPERMASSIVE OBJECT SQUEEZED SOLITONS NATIONAL PHYSICS DATABASE Number 32 May 1, 1991 NEW HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASARS EVIDENCE FOR A HEAVY NEUTRINO THE ASTRO OBSERVATORY SINGLE-CRYSTAL DIAMOND FILMS POLARIZED ELECTRONS Number 33 May 8, 1991 LIQUID-CRYSTAL COSMOLOGY THE FY92 FEDERAL BUDGET THE SLOWEST PROCESS OBSERVABLE IN NATURE ALPHA CENTAURI Number 34 May 15, 1991 THE GREAT ANNIHILATOR SONOLUMINESCENCE THE SPACE INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY BLACKS, HISPANICS, AND AMERICAN INDIANS THE PHYSICS FACULTY IS AGING Number 35 May 22, 1991 ATOM INTERFEROMETRY STUDIES OF GLOBULAR CLUSTERS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AT A TEMPERATURE OF 28 K BAND TWINNING FUNDS FOR THE SPACE STATION Number 36 May 31, 1991 A SUPERCONDUCTING FORM OF GALLIUM-ARSENIDE SILICON HAS BEEN MADE TO EMIT LIGHT THE MAGELLAN SPACECRAFT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS ARE GALACTIC IN ORIGIN THE MOON HAS A COMET-LIKE COMA AND TAIL Number 37 June 5, 1991 TRANSPARENCY IN GASES CAN BE INDUCED THE DEEPEST IMAGE OF THE UNIVERSE QUASARS MAY BE HIDDEN MANTLE PLUMES MARS, VENUS, AND JUPITER Number 38 June 21, 1991 RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED ADDITIONAL DISTANT QUASARS A NEW COPPER-OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL THE ULYSSES SPACECRAFT Number 39 July 1, 1991 THE FIRST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCH THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF K3C60 CLUSTERS OF ARGON ATOMS HIGH-INTENSITY SOLAR FLARES RESEARCH AT AT&T BELL LABS Number 40 July 10, 1991 THE FIRST TOTAL ECLIPSE THE MOST INTENSE EMITTER OF INFRARED RADIATION ATOM INTERFEROMETRY THE USE OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS Number 41 July 17, 1991 HYDROGEN ATOMS HAVE BEEN MADE A THIRD EINSTEIN RING EVIDENCE FOR THE 17-KEV NEUTRINO FULLERENES IN THE ORDINARY SOOT PRODUCING CRYSTALS IN HIGH GRAVITY Number 42 July 24, 1991 A PLANET HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AROUND A NEARBY PULSAR INDIVIDUAL STARS IN THE GALAXY NGC4571 HAVE BEEN RESOLVED TEN NEW MILLISECOND PULSARS SILICON ATOMS, DESPITE THEIR TIGHT COVALENT BONDS Number 43 August 1, 1991 AN ORGANIC FERROMAGNET THE RECENT SOLAR ECLIPSE STM IMAGES OF NON-CONDUCTING SURFACES A NEUTRINO MAP OF THE SKY AT THE XXII INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD Number 44 August 8, 1991 IRON HYDRIDES ACTUALLY EXPAND WHEN SQUEEZED INTERGALACTIC HYDROGEN CLOUDS STUDYING CP VIOLATION A TOTAL OF 1183 PHYSICS PHD'S WERE GRANTED IN 1990 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 45 August 30, 1991 AN ATOMIC SWITCH LIMITS ON THE ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINO MASS A NEW MECHANISM FOR THE DIFFUSION OF ATOMS ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY WITH ATOMIC RESOLUTION Number 46 September 6, 1991 THE FASTEST MOVING PULSAR KNOWN CARBON-60 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY THE JOINT EUROPEAN TORUS WILL USE TRITIUM A LANDSLIDE ON VENUS ACCELERATOR PROJECTS WORLDWIDE Number 47 September 13, 1991 DNA MOLECULES CAN BE MANIPULATED QUASICRYSTAL SEMICONDUCTORS THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER THE COLD NEUTRON RESEARCH FACILITY BUCKYBALLS CAN BE ORDERED BY MAIL Number 48 September 19, 1991 MUCH OF BRITISH SCIENCE IS IN A MESS C-76 HAS BEEN ISOLATED THE FARTHEST QUASAR EVER OBSERVED TITAN HAS AN ANTI-GREENHOUSE EFFECT THE REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP SURVEY Number 49 September 26, 1991 HIGH INDEX OF REFRACTION AND LOW ABSORPTION GAMMA RAY BURSTS ARE UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED THE GREAT ANNIHILATOR MICHAEL FARADAY PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE IS ONE YEAR OLD Number 50 October 3, 1991 CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITIES IN SUPERCONDUCTORS LIGHTNING ON VENUS THE TAU NEUTRINO MASS BLUE LIGHT FROM A ZINC SELENIDE LASER DIODE SS433 IS NOT A BLACK HOLE Number 51 October 10, 1991 THE COSMIC X-RAY BACKGROUND LEVELS OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE OVER ANTARCTICA THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET (EUV) GREENLANDISH MUONS THE JAPAN NATIONAL LARGE TELESCOPE Number 52 October 16, 1991 THE 1991 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE GAS LENSES Number 53 October 29, 1991 GUANINE AND ADENINE HAVE BEEN IMAGED BY STM THE ASTEROID GASPRA PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (PRL) PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE U.S. Number 54 November 4, 1991 TWO-PHOTON BOUND STATES THE FIRST GLOBAL MAP OF VENUS ELECTRON-PROTON COLLISIONS AT HERA HOW COULD A PLANET BE ORBITING A PULSAR? Number 55 November 7, 1991 A SEMICONDUCTOR FOR LIGHT WAVES THE MOST LUMINOUS GAMMA-RAY SOURCE MERCURY'S POLES MAY BE COVERED WITH ICE. NEWTON'S GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT Number 56 November 15, 1991 DOPED FULLERENES ARE SUPERCONDUCTING AT 45 K. A NEW MICRO-CANTILEVER MECHANICAL AMPLIFIER CARBON-13 DIAMONDS A HEAVY VERSION OF THE W BOSON GRAPHITIC CARBON TUBES Number 57 November 27, 1991 A "ZEL'DOVICH PANCAKE," THE SOVIET-AMERICAN GALLIUM SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT (SAGE) THE SMALLEST LASER YET Number 58 December 5, 1991 PERSISTENT CURRENTS A BOW SHOCK AND TAIL EVIDENCE FOR CLUSTER IMPACT FUSION SONOCHEMISTRY AND AMORPHOUS IRON Number 59 December 18, 1991 SOME QUASARS PRODUCE ONE-SIDED JETS METAL-FILLED BUCKYBALLS A DISTANT CLOUD OF CARBON MONOXIDE CONTINENT-SIZED WINDSTORMS PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE Number 60 December 27, 1991 PRESSURE-AMORPHIZED QUARTZ BETA ENVIRONMENTAL FINE STRUCTURE (BEFS) THE NATIONAL NANOFABRICATION FACILITY (NNF) FORECASTING PHYSICS DISCOVERIES