The dawn of the age of silicon electronics occurred during the war, when point-contact silicon rectifiers became standard nonlinear elements in microwave radar circuits -- Frederick Seitz
The distinction between strategic and curiosity-driven research may be artificial -- Henry Ehrenreich
Generating plasma beat waves with extremely short and intense laser pulses may turn out to be the easiest way to accelerate electrons to a trillion electron volts -- Chandrashekhar J. Joshi and Paul B. Corkum
Confessions of a committee junkie -- Daniel Kleppner
New compound brightens outlook for photorefractive polymers
Yohkoh reveals site of solar flare energy release
Convincing evidence seen for isotopes of element 110
Elections ring in Newtonian age, with fate of R&D in question
Livermore is enmeshed in politics of building laser fusion facility
Survey shows makeup of AIP member societies
Bromley will lead APS in 1997
ACA vice president for 1995 is Huber
AAPT elects Edge as vice president
AAPT establishes two education awards
Weart wins Gemant Award
Freedom to choose: Is it a waste? -- Sudip Chakravarty
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, P. R. Gross and N. Levitt (reviewed by A. R. Kantrowitz)
Order, Chaos, Order: The Transition from Classical to Quantum Physics, P. Stehle (reviewed by Z. Wang)
From Alchemy to Quarks, S. Glashow (reviewed by I. D. Abella)
Introduction to Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, G. A. Somorjai (reviewed by B. E. Bent)
G. I. Budker: Reflections and Remembrances, edited by B. N. Breizman and J. W. van Dam (reviewed by A. Vainshtein)
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