Link to on-line versions of articleChance favored Becquerel with cloudy days that hid his phosphorescent uranium salts from the Sun. Further experiments led him to conclude that the salts emitted invisible, penetrating rays independent of their luminescence -- Lawrence Badash
Descriptions of the physical universe and proofs of abstract
mathematical theorems are sometimes intimately related -- Roman Jackiw
Link to on-line versions of article
Fractal generalizations of Brownian motion have proven to be a rich field in probability theory, statistical physics and chaotic dynamics -- Joseph Klafter, Michael F. Shlesinger and Gert Zumofen
Advances in synchrotron sources of hard x rays promise to open a new frontier in the use of inelastic scattering to probe eV and sub-eV electronic excitations in simple and complex solids and liquids -- Eric D. Isaacs and Phil Platzman
US and Japan plan to create cross-country neutrino beams. Neutrino beams running hundreds of kilometers through the Earth, from accelerator to detector, would provide sensitive tests of neutrino flavor oscillation.
LEP collider moves beyond the Z0. Last November, CERN's LEP collider looked at the highest-energy e+e- collisions yet achieved and saw no serious challenges to the standard model.
Preprints cited: CERN-PRE-95-003, 004, 005, 007 and TH-95-314
To limit damage of shrinking science budgets, Academies
panel urges new funding framework
Online edition of the National Academies' report on allocating federal funds
National Academy Press online
House science chair to retire from Congress
Physicists learn from budget battle at City College of New York. What happened here could happen elsewhere, says CCNY's Joel Gersten. Physicists should regard this as a national issue.
Few changes so far in national labs' physics workforce.
Bertsch replaces Pines as RMP editor.
Clardy is elected vice president of ACA.
Johnson becomes editor of Optics Letters.
Magnetism: Principles and Applications, D. Craik (reviewed by R. W. Brown)
Guide to the Sun, K. J. H. Phillips (reviewed by S. M. White)
The Quantum Dot: A Journey into the Future of Microelectronics, R. Turton (reviewed by R. W. Landauer)
Fundamentals of Optical Fibers, J. A. Buck (reviewed by I. Jacobs)
Theoretical Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, J. D. Walecka (reviewed by G. A. Miller)
Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics, D. Kaplan and L. Glass (reviewed by S. A. Berger)
Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty, J. R. Matthews (reviewed by D. E. Herbert)
Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity, or a Walk Through Superspace, I. L. Buchbinder and S. M. Kuzenko (reviewed by S. J. Gates)
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