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Preserving the Heritage
of Discovery |
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In the 40 years since its creation, the
Niels Bohr Library has become the world center for preserving
the historical record of modern physics and allied fields, and
for helping people show this record to the public -- Spencer
Weart |
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Putting Free-Electron
Lasers to Work |
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By making a relativistic electron beam
wiggle its way through an array of magnets, one can generate
intense coherent light with wavelengths tunable from centimeters
to angstroms -- William B. Colson,
Erik D. Johnson, Michael J. Kelley, and H. Allan Schwettman |
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New Themes and Audiences
for the Physics of Music |
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Music offers a powerful yet accessible
context for introducing the techniques and principles of the
scientific method -- George N. Gibson
and Ian D. Johnston |
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Readings from the Physics
Today Archive |
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Physics Update |
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Letters |
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Professional Development
Is One Part of Science Education Solution |
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Physical Truth Without
the Relatives |
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Theory, Experiment,
and Shelter Island |
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Correction |
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Search & Discovery |
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Experiment and Theory
Combine to Probe the Quantum Chemistry of Molecular Beams |
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Just as golfers gauge the slope of a green
before holing a putt, chemists seeking to predict a reaction's
outcome need to know the potential energy between reactants. |
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Electron Diffraction
by Light, Envisioned 70 Years Ago, Is Observed at Last |
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A fundamental quantum effect involving
the feeble interaction of light with free electrons requires
intense lasers for its experimental realization. But that's
just part of the story. |
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Gamble Pays Off at the
Advanced Light Source |
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New magnets at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory's Advanced Light Source have added hard x rays to
the accelerator's offerings of synchrotron radiation beams. |
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Issues & Events |
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National Labs Focus on
Tools against Terrorism in Wake of Airliner and Anthrax Attacks |
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A sophisticated array of devices to detect
the potential weapons of terrorism--chemical and biological
agents, radioactive material, and explosives--are being developed
by scientists working long hours to try to prevent future attacks. |
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Accident Cripples Super-Kamiokande
Neutrino Observatory |
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While the tank was being refilled with
50 000 tons of water, a photomultiplier tube imploded and the
shock wave set off a chain reaction that left more than 7000
PMTs shattered. That, at least, is what scientists surmise happened
on the morning of 12 November in Super-Kamiokande, the world's
largest neutrino detector. |
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Twenty-Year Plan for
US High-Energy Physics |
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After a year of intensive consultation
within the US particle-physics community, and with colleagues
worldwide, the HEPAP subpanel on long-range planning for US
high-energy physics will submit its much-anticipated report
at the end of this month for transmittal to the funding agencies. |
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O'Keefe Is New NASA
Chief |
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Just days after Dan Goldin announced he
was leaving his post as NASA administrator, President Bush surprised
the science community by naming Sean O'Keefe, a nonscientist,
for the job. |
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Neureiter Brings Science
and Fellowships to State Department |
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When Norman Neureiter was appointed as
the first science and technology adviser to the Secretary of
State in the waning days of the Clinton administration, his
first priorities were to make State Department employees aware
of the value of science in international relations and to convince
scientists that they could contribute to the work of diplomats. |
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Leemann Leads Jefferson
Lab |
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After about a year as interim director
of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport
News, Virginia, Christoph Leemann now holds the top job. |
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Caltech Gets More from
Moore |
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Caltech's coffers are $600 million richer,
thanks to semiconductor pioneer Gordon Moore, his wife Betty,
and the foundation the couple created in 2000. |
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Climate Talks Reach
New Milestone |
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In early November, 170 countries finally
achieved consensus on how to cut global carbon dioxide emissions
produced by humankind to 5% below their 1990 levels. The plan
is part of the ongoing negotiations for implementing the 1997
Kyoto Protocol to slow down global warming. |
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News Notes |
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Pluto power; Gemini South telescope; Particle
physics in Victoria; Planetary Society officers; Earth and space
sciences jobs; Physics Today online |
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Web Watch |
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Wolfgang Pauli and Modern Physics; The
Sound of Many Hands Clapping; The 2000 National Doctoral Program
Survey |
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Books |
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Genesis
of the Big Bang, Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman
(reviewed by Martin O. Harwit) |
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Introduction
to the Replica Theory of Disordered Statistical Systems,
Viktor Dotsenko (reviewed by Daniel L. Stein) |
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Science,
Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion,
Daniel S. Greenberg (reviewed by Norman Metzger) |
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Structure
and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, Gerald
Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, with M. E. Mayer (reviewed by Scott
Tremaine) |
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An
Introduction to Magneto-hydrodynamics, Peter A. Davidson
(reviewed by Stanley A. Berger) |
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Symmetry
in Mechanics: A Gentle, Modern Introduction, Stephanie
Frank Singer (reviewed by J. R. Dorfman) |
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New Books |
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New Products |
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We Hear That |
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MacArthur
Fellows Announced |
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OSA Awards Given at
Fall Meeting |
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AVS Taps Bonnell
as New President-Elect |
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OSA Vice President
Elected for 2002 |
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In Brief |
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Obituaries |
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Nathan Isgur |
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Michael John Murtagh |
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Richard Day Deslattes |
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William Wilson Mullins |
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William Thomas 'Tom'
Pinkston |
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Sidney Siegel |
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Job
Opportunities |
