Physics
Update
Reference
Frame
Changing--Leo
P. Kadanoff
Letters
Search
and Discovery
Nobel Prize to ’t Hooft and Veltman for putting
electroweak theory on firmer foundation...Nobel Prize goes to
Zewail for developing femtochemistry...A new way to guide light
in optical fibers
Washington
Reports
Budget
brinkmanship leads to unexpected gains in fiscal 2000 for R&D
at NSF, DOD, and DOE...Washington briefings: R&D fuels US
economic miracle in 1990s; Fears recede over access to research
data; White House defines scientific misconduct
Physics
Community
In the wake of Tokaimura,
Japan rethinks its nuclear future... What
happened at Tokaimura?... UC to open new campus in Central
Valley... Canadian institute starts program in nanoelectronics...Journal
comparison shopping revisited . . . AIP Industrial Physics Forum
held at Exxon... Coffey will lead AAPM in 2001...Brinkman is elected
vice president of APS ...In Brief...Web
Watch
Books
How the Laser Happened: Adventures
of a Scientist, C. H. Townes (reviewed by S. Chu)...Advanced
LabVIEW® Labs, J. Essick (reviewed by E. D. Jones)...Basic
Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics: An Introductory Approach,
K. Heyde (reviewed by B. R. Barrett)...Understanding Quantum
Mechanics and Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting
Contemporary Science, R. Omnès (reviewed by R. Scalettar)...Acoustics
of Fluid–Structure Interactions, M. S. Howe (reviewed by D.
Feit)
New Products
Focus on spectroscopy
We Hear
That
Obituaries
Arthur Leonard Schawlow...Daniel William Martin...Charles Gregory
Speziale
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Exchange
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