On-line information about ACA meetingWe tell ourselves that biologists need physicists and that biological materials present a big opportunity for physics, but then physicists and biologists don't train themselves to work together and learn from each other -- V. Adrian Parsegian
Atoms moving in an accelerating optical lattice exhibit quantum behavior such as Bloch oscillations, Wannier-Stark ladders and tunneling---phenomena usually associated with electrons in a crystalline solid -- Mark Raizen, Christophe Salomon and Qian Niu
One can make opaque resonant transitions transparent to laser radiation, often with most of the atoms remaining in the ground state -- Stephen E. Harris
High-redshift absorption lines show convincingly that gamma-ray bursters are very far away. All of a sudden the long debate is over. Gamma-ray bursters really do live halfway across the cosmos. Now we know that they are, for brief moments, the most luminous objects in the universe.
Polar orbiter shows evidence of minicomet bombardment.
Metal-insulator transition unexpectedly appears in a two-dimensional electron system. When the temperature approaches 0 K, can a two-dimensional electron system become a metal? Some recent experiments suggest it can.
Crystallographers to gather in St. Louis this month
On-line information about ACA meeting
Bethe to Clinton: Halt all nuclear weapons research, even "creative thought," and emphasize stewardship
APS statement on test-ban treaty
Japan's worries about its neglect of scientific research lead to new collaborations with Brookhaven and NASA
Washington dispatches
Washington ins & outs: Good leaves Commerce, Grumbly DOE
Closure looms for funder of US-FSU scientific collaborations. Most of the organizations that have sprung up to support science in the former Soviet Union focus on applied research. One that funds basic science is the CRDF, but it will have to close shop if its coffers are not replenished soon.
Swedish research faces budget cuts. In Sweden, as in many other countries, politicians and scientists are wrestling over proposed cuts in research funding.
US policy toward Cuba undermines scientific exchanges. By barring the entry of Cuban scientists, the US government is jeopardizing American institutions' bids to host international science meetings in the states---a grim prospect for scientists here and abroad.
Arecibo telescope is upgraded
Government employs physicists in many ways
Springer-Verlag acquires AIP Press
Physicists' salaries rise, though not all beat inflation
Lectureship prize for young physicists is established
Sites mentioned in briefs:
McDonnell Foundation
Euroscience
Arrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect, E. Crawford (reviewed by B. Bolin)
Teaching Introductory Physics, A. B. Arons (reviewed by E. F. Redish)
Teaching Introductory Physics: A Sourcebook, C. E. Swartz and T. Miner (reviewed by G. J. Aubrecht II)
Radio-Frequency Electronics: Circuits and Applications, J. B. Hagen (reviewed by L. G. Rubin)
Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory, R. A. Bertlmann (reviewed by R. Shankar)
Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications, D. Frenkel and B. Smit (reviewed by M. A. Ratner)
Particle Detectors, C. Grupen (reviewed by J. Sandweiss)
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Links mentioned in letters:
Vannevar Bush report (1945)
TIPTOP (The Internet Pilot TO Physics)
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