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A. P. French The Strange Case of Emil Rupp . . . . . 3--21
K. E. Johnson Science at the Breakfast Table . . . . . 22--34
A. Franklin The Roles of Experiment . . . . . . . . 35--53
Michael J. Crowe Pierre Duhem, the History and Philosophy
of Physics, and the Teaching of Physics 54--64
D. B. Wilson Galileo's Religion Versus the Church's
Science? Rethinking the History of
Science and Religion . . . . . . . . . . 65--84
Arthur I. Miller Einstein's First Steps Toward General
Relativity: Gedanken Experiments and
Axiomatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--104
Abraham Pais In memoriam: Robert Serber (1909--1997) 105--109
Klaus Hentschel Some Historical Points of Interest in
Göttingen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--117
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Bernard Pullman,
\booktitleThe Atom in the History of
Human Thought, translated from the
French by Axel Reisinger. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1998, xii + 403
pages. \$32.50 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 118--120
Roger G. Newton Book Review: Gary William Flake,
\booktitleThe Computational Beauty of
Nature: Computer Explorations of
Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and
Adaptation. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT
Press, 1998, xviii + 493 pp. \$45.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
N. F. Ramsey Early History of Magnetic Resonance . . 123--135
M. J. Nye A Physicist in the Corridors of Power:
P. M. S. Blackett's Opposition to Atomic
Weapons Following the War . . . . . . . 136--156
A. Romer The Welcoming of Copernicus's
\booktitleDe revolutionibus: The
\booktitleCommentariolus and its
Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--183
Stephen G. Brush Why was Relativity Accepted? . . . . . . 184--214
Anonymous Ein Limerick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
Karen E. Johnson and
Donald C. Peckham In memoriam: Alfred Romer (1906--1998) 215--218
B. Pippard The Whipple Museum and Cavendish
Laboratory, Cambridge . . . . . . . . . 219--223
Bryce DeWitt Book Review: John Archibald Wheeler with
Kenneth Ford, \booktitleGeons, Black
Holes and Quantum Foam, A Life in
Physics. New York and London: W. W.
Norton, 1998, 380 pages. \$27.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
Erwin N. Hiebert Book Review: Robert D. Purrington,
\booktitlePhysics in the Nineteenth
Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1997, xx, 251 pages.
\$55.00 (cloth), \$25.00 (paper) . . . . 225--226
Marvin L. Goldberger Book Review: Dan Cooper,
\booktitleEnrico Fermi and the
Revolution in Modern Physics. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999, 117
pages. \$21.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 226--227
Michael J. Neufeld Book Review: Paul Lawrence Rose,
\booktitleHeisenberg and the Nazi Atomic
Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture.
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University
of California Press, 1998, xx, 352
pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 227--228
Gerald Holton R. A. Millikan's Struggle with the
Meaning of Planck's Constant . . . . . . 231--237
Michael Eckert Mathematics, Experiments, and
Theoretical Physics: The Early Days of
the Sommerfeld School . . . . . . . . . 238--252
Judith Goodstein A Conversation with Hans Bethe . . . . . 253--281
Klaus Hentschel The Culture of Visual Representations in
Spectroscopic Education and Laboratory
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--327
Marvin L. Goldberger In appreciation: Enrico Fermi
(1901--1954): The Complete Physicist . . 328--336
Anonymous The Common Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
Leif Gerward Book Review: Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles,
\booktitleNaked to the Bone: Medical
Imaging in the Twentieth Century. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1997, xiv + 378 pp. \$35.95 (cloth);
Reading: Addison-Wesley\slash Perseus
Books, 1998. \$18.00 (paper) . . . . . . 337--337
Sir Brian Pippard Book Review: Peter Day, ed.,
\booktitleThe Philosopher's Tree:
Michael Faraday's Life and work in his
own words. London: Institute of Physics,
1999. xv + 211 pages. \$75.00 (cloth),
\$29.00 (paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Neil A. Porter,
\booktitlePhysicists in Conflict: From
Antiquity to the new Millennium. Bristol
and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 1998. xv + 275 pages.
\$60.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Joseph F. Mulligan Heinrich Hertz and Philipp Lenard: two
distinguished physicists, two disparate
men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--366
Leif Gerward Paul Villard and his Discovery of Gamma
Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--383
Bretislav Friedrich The KLMN of X-Ray Spectroscopy:
Dolejsek's Discovery of the $N$ Series 384--389
H. H. Barschall Reminiscences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--444
Dieter Hoffmann Physics in Berlin: a Walk Through the
Historical City Center . . . . . . . . . 445--454
Robert A. Rynasiewicz Book Review: Per F. Dahl,
\booktitleFlash of the Cathode Rays: A
History of J. J. Thomson's Electron.
Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of
Physics Publishing, 1997. xvii + 526
pages. \$49.50 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 455--457
Richard H. Price Book Review: Nick Huggett,
\booktitleSpace from Zeno to Einstein.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xi +
274 pages. \$45.00 (cloth), \$22.50
(paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Clayton A. Gearhart Book Review: Crosbie Smith,
\booktitleThe Science of Energy: A
Cultural History of Energy Physics in
Victorian Britain. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1998. xii + 404 pages.
\$60 (cloth), \$25 (paper) . . . . . . . 458--459
William F. Brinkman Book Review: Charles H. Townes,
\booktitleHow the Laser Happened:
Adventures of a Scientist. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999. 200
pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 459--460
Hans A. Bethe Sommerfeld's Seminar . . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Anonymous Mistakes versus Crimes . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Erwin N. Hiebert Common Frontiers of the Exact Sciences
and the Humanities . . . . . . . . . . . 6--29
David Goodstein and
Judith Goodstein Richard Feynman and the History of
Superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 30--47
Ruth Lewin Sime The Search for Transuranium Elements and
the Discovery of Nuclear Fission . . . . 48--62
Nahum S. Kipnis The Window of Opportunity: Logic and
Chance in Becquerel's Discovery of
Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--99
Ginette Gablot A Parisian Walk along the Landmarks of
the Discovery of Radioactivity . . . . . 100--107
John Blackmore Book Review: Carlo Cercignani,
\booktitleLudwig Boltzmann: The Man Who
Trusted Atoms. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998, xvii, 327 pages. \$49.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Pierre Marage and Gregoire
Wallenborn, eds., \booktitleThe Solvay
Councils and the Birth of Modern
Physics. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999,
xiii + 226 pages. \$79.95 (cloth)} . . . 111--112
William E. Evenson Book Review: John D. Barrow,
\booktitleBetween Inner Space and Outer
Space: Essays on Science, Art, and
Philosophy, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999, 304 pp, \$30.00 (cloth)} 112--113
Roberto Torretti Gravity as Spacetime Curvature . . . . . 118--134
H. Richard Crane How We Happened to Measure $ g - 2 $: a
Tale of Serendipity . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
Robert Rathbun Wilson From Frontiersman to Physicist . . . . . 141--203
Giorgio Careri Lars, the Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--210
Robert W. Seidel Opening the Black Box at Bradbury
Science Museum, Los Alamos . . . . . . . 211--216
James T. Cushing Book Review: Helge Kragh,
\booktitleQuantum Generations: A History
of Physics in the Twentieth Century.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1999, xiv + 494 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} 217--218
Michael Riordan Book Review: Robert P. Crease,
\booktitleMaking Physics: A Biography of
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
1946--1972. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999, xii + 434 pages,
\$38.00 (cloth), \$22.50 (paper) . . . . 218--219
Philip B. James Book Review: William Poundstone,
\booktitleCarl Sagan: A Life in the
Cosmos. New York, Henry Holt and
Company, LLC, 1999, xii + 473 pages.
\$30.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Paul L. DeVries Book Review: Anthony J. G. Hey, ed.,
\booktitleFeynman and Computation:
Exploring the Limits of Computers.
Reading: Perseus Books, 1999, xxiii +
438 pages. \$50.00 (Hardbound)} . . . . 220--220
Robert V. Pound Weighing Photons, I . . . . . . . . . . 224--268
Sungook Hong Once Upon a Time in Physics When Both
Mathematics and Experiment Were
Helpless: a Strange Life of Voltaic
Contact Potential . . . . . . . . . . . 269--292
Jacob Darwin Hamblin Science in Isolation: American Marine
Geophysics Research, 1950--1968 . . . . 293--312
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. The Physical Tourist: Scientific Travels
in the Irish Countryside . . . . . . . . 313--326
Jeremy Butterfield Book Review: Roberto Torretti,
\booktitleThe Philosophy of Physics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1999, xvi + 512 pages. \$23.95 (cloth)} 327--328
Lawrence A. Coleman Book Review: Jim Al-Khalili,
\booktitleBlack Holes, Wormholes and
Time Machines. London: Institute of
Physics, 1999, xxii + 265 pages. \$16.50
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--330
David Park Book Review: Mara Beller,
\booktitleQuantum Dialogue: The Making
of a Revolution. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999, xv + 365 pages.
\$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--330
Issachar Unna The Genesis of Physics at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem . . . . . . . . 336--380
Helge Kragh An Unlikely Connection: Geochemistry and
Nuclear Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 381--397
Salvo D'Agostino On the Difficulties of the Transition
from Maxwell's and Hertz's Pure-Field
Theories to Lorentz's Electron . . . . . 398--410
Michael Riordan The Demise of the Superconducting Super
Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--425
Dieter Hoffmann The Physical Tourist: Physics in Berlin:
Walking tours in Charlottenburg and
Dahlem and Excursions in the Vicinity of
Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--445
Philip F. Schewe Book Review: Keay Davidson,
\booktitleCarl Sagan: A Life. New York:
John Wiley, 1999, xx + 540 pages.
\$30.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
William A. Blanpied Book Review: George Perkovich,
\booktitleIndia's Nuclear Bomb: The
Impact on Global Proliferation.
Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1999, xiii + 597 pages \$39.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--450
A. P. French Book Review: Louis Brown, \booktitleA
Radar History of World War II: Technical
and Military Imperatives. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 1999, 563 pages. \$38.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--453
Anonymous Geometrical versus Algebraical Thinking 453--453
J. S. Rigden and
R. H. Stuewer Good theories make for good experiments 1--3
Robert V. Pound Weighing Photons, II . . . . . . . . . . 4--51
Benjamin Bederson SEDs at Los Alamos: a Personal Memoir 52--75
Lawrence Badash Nuclear Winter: Scientists in the
Political Arena . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--105
Wolfgang L. Reiter In appreciation: Stefan Meyer: Pioneer
of radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--127
Harvey Gould Book Review: I. Bernard Cohen,
\booktitleHoward Aiken: Portrait of a
Computer Pioneer. Cambridge: MIT Press,
1999, xi + 329 pp. \$34.95 (Hardbound)} 128--130
Martin L. Perl Book Review: George Johnson,
\booktitleStrange Beauty: Murray
Gell-Mann and the Revolution in
Twentieth Century Physics. New York:
Knopf, 1999, x + 434 pages. \$30.00
(Hardbound)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
Albert Wattenberg Book Review: Per F. Dahl,
\booktitleHeavy Water and the Wartime
Race for Nuclear Energy. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics,
1999, xvi + 399 pages. \$60.00
(Hardbound)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Anonymous How to Mix Sweets . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
J. S. Rigden and
R. H. Stuewer ``With these dark words begins my
tale\ldots'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
Joseph F. Mulligan The Aether and Heinrich Hertz's
\booktitleThe Principles of Mechanics
Presented in a New Form . . . . . . . . 136--164
Kostas Gavro\uglu From defiant youth to conformist
adulthood: The sad story of liquid
helium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--188
Klaus Hentschel and
Gerhard Rammer Physicists at the University of
Göttingen, 1945--1955 . . . . . . . . . . 189--209
Kent W. Staley Lost origins of the third generation of
quarks: Theory, philosophy, and
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--229
Felicity Pors and
Finn Aaserud The Physical Tourist: Historical Sites
of Physical Science in Copenhagen . . . 230--248
J. Christopher Hunt Book Review: Helge Kragh,
\booktitleCosmology and Controversy: The
Historical Development of Two Theories
of the Universe. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1996, xiii + 500 pages
\$77.50 (cloth), \$19.95 (paper) . . . . 249--250
J. Christopher Hunt and
Eugen Merzbacher and
Charles H. Holbrow and
Benjamin Bederson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--254
Eugen Merzbacher Book Review: Roland Omn\`es,
\booktitleQuantum Philosophy:
Understanding and Interpreting
Contemporary Science, translated from
the French by Arturo Sangalli,
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1999, xxiii + 296 pages. \$29.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Charles H. Holbrow Book Review: Alan Isaacs, ed.,
\booktitleA Dictionary of Physics,
fourth edition. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000, vi + 546 pages.
\$14.95 (paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
Benjamin Bederson Book Review: Mary Palevsky,
\booktitleAtomic Fragments: A Daughter's
Questions. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2000,
xiv + 289 pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} . . . 253--254
J. S. Rigden and
R. H. Stuewer Celebrate facts . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Sir Brian Pippard Dispersion in the Ether: Light over the
Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--270
Judith R. Goodstein A conversation with Franco Rasetti . . . 271--313
Anonymous A few More Pounds . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
Robert G. Arns Detecting the Neutrino . . . . . . . . . 314--334
Eamon Harper In appreciation: George Gamow:
Scientific Amateur and Polymath . . . . 335--372
Geoffrey Cantor Book Review: Colin A. Russell,
\booktitleMichael Faraday: Physics and
Faith. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000, 128 pages. \$22.00 (cloth)} 373--375
Geoffrey Cantor and
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--376
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Dennis Overbye,
\booktitleEinstein in Love: A Scientific
Romance. New York: Viking, 2000, xv +
416 pages. \$27.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . 375--376
J. S. Rigden and
R. H. Stuewer Physics in a new era . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
David E. Rowe Einstein Meets Hilbert: At the
Crossroads of Physics and Mathematics 379--424
Anonymous Astrology and Science . . . . . . . . . 424--424
Alan Chalmers Maxwell, Mechanism, and the Nature of
Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--438
Xiang Chen Measuring Reflective Power with the Eye 439--461
Wolfgang L. Reiter The Physical Tourist: Vienna: a Random
Walk in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--489
Allan Franklin Book Review: John Ziman, \booktitleReal
Science: What it Is and What it Means.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000, xii + 399 pages. \$39.95 (cloth)} 490--491
Allan Franklin and
Kenneth W. Ford and
Hans Frauenfelder and
A. Truman Schwartz and
Thomas D. Rossing Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--497
Kenneth W. Ford Book Review: John Canaday, \booktitleThe
Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics and
the First Atomic Bomb. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000,
xviii + 303 pages. \$22.95 (paper),
\$60.00 (cloth) . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--493
Hans Frauenfelder Book Review: S. S. Schweber,
\booktitleIn the Shadow of the Bomb:
Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral
Responsibility of the Scientist.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2000, xviii + 260 pages. \$24.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495
A. Truman Schwartz Book Review: Robert E. Schofield,
\booktitleThe Enlightenment of Joseph
Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work
from 1733 to 1773. University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
1997, xii+ 305 pages. \$45.00 (Cloth)} 495--496
Thomas D. Rossing Book Review: Jeff Hecht, \booktitleCity
of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999, xii
+ 316 pages. \$29.95 (Cloth)} . . . . . 496--497
J. S. Rigden and
R. H. Stuewer Realism and the contraction of ``pure''
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Timothy Ferris On Science Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
Ernan McMullin The Origins of the Field Concept in
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--39
Allan Franklin William Wilson and the Absorption of
Beta Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--77
Roman Jackiw and
Abner Shimony In appreciation: The Depth and Breadth
of John Bell's Physics . . . . . . . . . 78--116
Jürgen Teichmann Book Review: Myles W. Jackson,
\booktitleSpectrum of Belief: Joseph von
Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision
Optics. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT
Press, 2000, x + 284 pages. \$34.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Jürgen Teichmann and
Malvin H. Kalos and
Douglass E. Post and
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
Roberto Torretti Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--123
Malvin H. Kalos and
Douglass E. Post Book Review: Martin Davis, \booktitleThe
Universal Computer: The Road From
Leibniz to Turing. New York: W. W.
Norton and Company, 2000, xii + 237
pages. \$25.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 118--119
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Gregg Herken,
\booktitleCardinal Choices: Presidential
Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to
SDI, revised and expanded edition.
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2000, xv + 358 pages. \$22.95 (paper)} 119--120
Roberto Torretti Book Review: Steve Fuller,
\booktitleThomas Kuhn: A Philosophical
History for Our Times. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000, xviii
+ 472 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . 120--123
J. S. Rigden and
R. H. Stuewer The lure of a simple story . . . . . . . 125--126
Hasok Chang Rumford and the reflection of radiant
cold: Historical reflections and
metaphysical reflexes . . . . . . . . . 127--169
Clayton A. Gearhart Planck, the Quantum, and the Historians 170--215
Salvo D'Agostino From rational numbers to Dirac's bra and
ket: Symbolic representation of physical
laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--229
David J. Rhees The Physical Tourist: Physics in ``Lake
Wobegon'': a Tour of Three Minnesota
Museums of Science and Technology . . . 230--240
Sir Brian Pippard Vignette --- Elisabeth Hertz (née Doll)
1864--1941, Widow of Heinrich Rudolf
Hertz 1857--1894, Professor of Physics,
University of Bonn . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Jay M. Pasachoff and
James T. Cushing and
David Goodstein and
Michael A. Day Book Reviews: Ralph A. Alpher and Robert
Herman, \booktitleThe Genesis of the Big
Bang. New York: Oxford University Press,
2001, viii + 224 pages. \$29.95
(hardbound). Shimon Malin,
\booktitle{Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum
Physics and Reality, a Western
Perspective}. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001, xv + 288 pages.
\$27.50 (hardbound). Arthur I. Miller,
\booktitleEinstein, Picasso. Space,
Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc.
New York: Basic Books, 2001, x + 357
pages. \$30.00 (cloth). Jay A. Labinger
and Harry Collins, ed., \booktitle{The
One Culture? A Conversation about
Science}. Chicago University of Chicago
Press, 2001, 321 pages. \$18.00 (paper),
\$65.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--250
James T. Cushing Book Review: \booktitleNature loves to
hide: Quantum physics and reality, a
Western perspective . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
David Goodstein Book Review: \booktitleEinstein,
Picasso. Space, time, and the beauty
that causes havoc . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
Michael A. Day Book Review: \booktitleThe one culture?
A conversation about science . . . . . . 248--250
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial --- Victor Frederick
Weisskopf, September 19, 1908--April 21,
2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Ana Simões Dirac's Claim and the Chemists . . . . . 253--266
Michael Stöltzner Franz Serafin Exner's indeterminist
theory of culture . . . . . . . . . . . 267--319
John Jenkin G. E. M. Jauncey and the Compton Effect 320--332
Jürgen Teichmann and
Michael Eckert and
Stefan Wolff Physicists and Physics in Munich . . . . 333--359
Donald Kobe Book Review: Roland Omn\`es,
\booktitleUnderstanding Quantum
Mechanics. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1999, xiii + 307
pages. \$35.00 (Hardbound)} . . . . . . 360--361
Donald Kobe and
Alan E. Shapiro and
John F. Ahearne and
Kenneth W. Ford Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--366
Alan E. Shapiro Book Review: Scott L. Montgomery,
\booktitleScience in Translation:
Movements of Knowledge through Cultures
and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2000, xi + 325 pages. \$28.00
(Hardbound)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
John F. Ahearne Book Review: Daniel S. Greenberg,
\booktitleScience, Money, and Politics:
Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2001, viii + 530 pages.
\$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--365
Kenneth W. Ford Book Review: Steven Weinberg,
\booktitleFacing Up: Science and Its
Cultural Adversaries. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
2001, xiv + 283 pages. \$26.00 (cloth)} 365--366
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial --- Physics in Crisis? . . . . 367--369
E. Dorrit Hoffleit Pioneering women in the spectral
classification of stars . . . . . . . . 370--398
Rajinder Singh C. V. Raman and the Discovery of the
Raman Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--420
Michel Janssen Reconsidering a scientific revolution:
The case of Einstein \em versus Lorentz 421--446
David C. Cassidy New Light on ``\booktitleCopenhagen''
and the German Nuclear Project . . . . . 447--455
Jon M. Harkness In appreciation: a Lifetime of
Connections: Otto Herbert Schmitt,
1913--1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--490
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Sean F. Johnston,
\booktitleA history of light and colour
measurements: Science in the shadows,
Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of
Physics Publishing, 2001, xi + 281
pages. \$75 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
Stephen G. Brush and
Art Hobson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--495
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew
Warwick, ed., \booktitleHistories of the
electron: The birth of microphysics.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press,
2001, xi + 514 pages. \$55.00 (cloth)} 492--493
Art Hobson Book Review: George Gamow and Russell
Stannard, \booktitleThe New World of Mr
Tompkins. Cambridge, United Kingdom:
Cambridge University Press, 1999, ix +
258 pages, \$24.95 (cloth), \$16.95
(paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
Anonymous Good Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial --- Stop the Physics
Centrifuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Arne Schirrmacher Planting in his neighbor's garden: David
Hilbert and early Göttingen quantum
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--20
Hubert Goenner Albert Einstein and Friedrich Dessauer:
political views and political practice 21--66
Lilian Hoddeson and
Adrienne Kolb Vision to reality: from Robert R.
Wilson's frontier to Leon M. Lederman's
Fermilab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
Benjamin Bederson The Physical Tourist: Physics and New
York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--121
Friedrich Steinle Book Review: Peter Heering, Falk Riess,
and Christian Sichau, ed., \booktitleIm
Labor der Physikgeschichte: Zur
Untersuchung historischer
Experimentalpraxis. [(German) [In the
laboratory of the history of physics ---
Research on historical experiments]].
Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag, 2000, 220 pages.
11.30 euros (soft cover) . . . . . . . . 122--123
Friedrich Steinle and
Edward Gerjuoy and
Richard Jacob Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--126
Edward Gerjuoy Book Review: Jagdish Mehra and Kimball
A. Milton, \booktitleClimbing the
Mountain: The Scientific Biography of
Julian Schwinger. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000, 677 pages.
\$49.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126
Richard Jacob Book Review: D. Allan Bromley,
\booktitleA Century of Physics. New
York: Springer-Verlag, 2001, x + 114
pages. \$59.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 126--126
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial --- Globalization of Nuclear
Weapons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
Robert H. March Physics at the University of Wisconsin:
a History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--149
Giora Hon From Propagation to Structure: The
Experimental Technique of Bombardment as
a Contributing Factor to the Emerging
Quantum Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--173
Judith R. Goodstein A Conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge
--- Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--205
Peter B. Kahn In appreciation: Remembering Max Dresden
(1918--1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--233
Peter B. Kahn Book Review: Michael W. Friedlander,
\booktitleA Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles
from Outer Space. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2000, 241
pages. \$29.95 (cloth), \$17.95 (paper) 234--235
Peter B. Kahn and
Stephen G. Brush and
David P. Stern Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--239
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Robert Marc Friedman,
\booktitleThe Politics of Excellence:
Behind the Nobel Prize in Science. New
York: A. H. Freeman/Times Books/Henry
Holt, 2001, xv + 379 pages. \$30.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
David P. Stern Book Review: Leon Golub and Jay M.
Pasachoff, \booktitleNearest Star: The
Surprising Science of our Sun.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 2001, xii + 267 pages, \$29.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Two Twin Paradoxes . . . . . 241--242
Jeremy Bernstein The Drawing or Why History Is Not
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--261
Andrea Loettgers Samuel Pierpont Langley and his
contributions to the empirical basis of
black-body radiation . . . . . . . . . . 262--280
Judith R. Goodstein A conversation with Lee Alvin DuBridge
--- Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--309
László Kovács, Sr. The Physical Tourist: Budapest: a Random
Walk in Science and Culture . . . . . . 310--348
Albert Wattenberg Book Review: Edward Teller with Judith
Shoolery, \booktitleMemoirs: A
Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and
Politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Perseus Publishing, 2001, xii + 628
pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 349--352
Albert Wattenberg and
Alberto A. Martínez and
Robert Vandenbosch Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--355
Alberto A. Martínez Book Review: John Stachel,
\booktitleEinstein from `B' to `Z'.
Boston/Basel\ldots Berlin: Birkhäuser,
2002, xi + 556 pages. \$69.95 (cloth)} 352--354
Robert Vandenbosch Book Review: Per F. Dahl, \booktitleFrom
Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear
Fission, 1932--1939. Bristol and
Philadelphia: Institute of Physics
Publishing, 2002, xii + 304 pages.
\$75.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Faith, Reason, and \booktitlePhysics in
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Matteo Leone and
Nadia Robotti Are the elements elementary?
Nineteenth-Century chemical and
spectroscopical answers . . . . . . . . 360--383
Andrea Gambassi Enrico Fermi in Pisa . . . . . . . . . . 384--397
Ian T. Durham Eddington and Uncertainty . . . . . . . 398--418
Charles H. Holbrow In appreciation: Charles C. Lauritsen: a
reasonable man in an unreasonable world 419--472
D. Goodstein The road to Stockholm: Nobel prizes,
science and scientists . . . . . . . . . 473--473
David Goodstein and
William A. Wallace and
Peter Lindenfeld Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--476
W. A. Wallace Galileo in context . . . . . . . . . . . 474--475
P. Lindenfeld How the universe got its spots: Diary of
a finite time in a finite space . . . . 475--476
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Is Physics Simple? Yes and No . . . . . 1--3
Alberto A. Martínez Ritz, Einstein, and the Emission
Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--28
Giovanni Acocella and
Francesco Guerra and
Nadia Robotti Enrico Fermi's discovery of
neutron-induced artificial
radioactivity: The recovery of his first
laboratory notebook . . . . . . . . . . 29--41
James L. Levine Early Gravity-Wave Detection
Experiments, 1960--1975 . . . . . . . . 42--75
Peter Holmberg The Physical Tourist: Physics in
Helsinki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--113
Harry Lustig Book Review: William H. Cropper,
\booktitleGreat Physicists: The Life and
Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo
to Hawking. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001, xii + 500 pages. \$35.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--119
Harry Lustig and
William E. Evenson and
Richard J. Jacob Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--122
W. E. Evenson Book Review: Allan Franklin,
\booktitleSelectivity and Discord: Two
Problems of Experiment. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002,
xii + 290 pages. \$37.50 (cloth)} . . . 119--121
Richard J. Jacob Book Review: Kenneth D. Bergeron,
\booktitleTritium on Ice. Cambridge,
Mass.: The MIT Press, 2002, xii + 234
pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 121--122
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Science Questions Nature and Nature
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Annette Lykknes and
Helge Kragh and
Lise Kvittingen Ellen Gleditsch: Pioneer Woman in
Radiochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--155
Carlo Bernardini AdA: The First Electron--Positron
Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--183
Judith R. Goodstein A Conversation with Frank Press . . . . 184--196
Simón Reif-Acherman Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: Master of
Experimental Technique and Quantitative
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--223
Alberto A. Mart\'ìnez Material history and imaginary clocks:
Poincaré, Einstein, and Galison on
simultaneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--240
Jay M. Pasachoff Book Review: Robert P. Kirshner,
\booktitleThe Extravagant Universe:
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the
Accelerating Cosmos. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2002, xii +
282 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . 241--243
Jay M. Pasachoff and
A. P. French and
Robert Weinstock Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
A. P. French Book Review: Peter Hore, ed.,
\booktitlePatrick Blackett: Sailor,
Scientist and Socialist. London: Frank
Cass, 2003, xiii + 330 pages. \$59.50
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--246
Robert Weinstock Book Reviews: Stephen Inwood,
\booktitleThe Man Who Knew Too Much: The
Strange and Inventive Life of Robert
Hooke, 1635--1703. London: Macmillan,
2002, xxix + 497 pages. \$37.50 (cloth).
Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper, Michael
Hunter, Lisa Jardine,
\booktitle{London's Leonardo: The Life
and Work of Robert Hooke}. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2003, xii + 224
pages. \$35.00 (cloth) . . . . . . . . . 246--248
Anonymous Two strong personalities . . . . . . . . 248--248
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Ideology and Science; Science and
Ideology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
Karl-Heinz H. Schlote Carl Neumann's Contributions to
Electrodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--270
Matteo Leone and
Alessandro Paoletti and
Nadia Robotti A simultaneous discovery: The case of
Johannes Stark and Antonino Lo Surdo . . 271--294
Karen E. Johnson From Natural History to the Nuclear
Shell Model: Chemical Thinking in the
Work of Mayer, Haxel, Jensen, and Suess 295--309
J. L. Bromberg and
A. L. Schawlow The Playful Physicist . . . . . . . . . 310--343
Adam Strzalkowski The Physical Tourist: Physics in Cracow 344--361
Roger H. Stuewer Book Review: Robert Rosner and Brigitte
Strohmaier, ed., \booktitleMarietta Blau
--- Sterne der Zertrümmerung: Biographie
einer Wegbereiterin der modernen
Teilchenphysik. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau
Verlag, 2003, 229 pages. 29.90 euros
(cloth) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Roger H. Stuewer and
Thomas L. Hankins and
Art Hobson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--367
Thomas L. Hankins Book Review: Roy Porter, ed.,
\booktitleEighteenth-Century Science.
Vol. 4. The Cambridge History of
Science. Cambridge University Press,
2003, xxx + 912 pages. \$95.00 (cloth)} 364--365
Art Hobson Book Review: Stephanie Pace Marshall,
Judith A. Scheppler, and Michael J.
Palmisano, ed., \booktitleScience
Literacy for the Twenty-First Century.
Amherst and New York: Prometheus Books,
2003, 321 pages. \$29.00 (cloth)} . . . 365--367
Anonymous Bohr and the Rabbi . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer J. Robert Oppenheimer --- Brilliance and
charisma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Salvo D'Agostino The Bild conception of physical theory:
Helmholtz, Hertz, and Schrödinger . . . . 372--389
Paul Halpern Nordström, Ehrenfest, and the Role of
Dimensionality in Physics . . . . . . . 390--400
Martin L. Perl The Discovery of the Tau Lepton and the
Changes in Elementary-Particle Physics
in Forty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--427
Michael A. Day In appreciation: I. I. Rabi: The two
cultures and the universal culture of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--476
Ruth Lewin Sime Book Review: Mary Jo Nye, ed.,
\booktitleThe Modern Physical and
Chemical Sciences. Vol. 5. The Cambridge
History of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003, xxvii + 678
pages. \$95.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 477--477
Ruth Lewin Sime and
Robert Ehrlich and
Antonio Aurilia and
Roger G. Newton and
Allan Franklin and
Laurie M. Brown Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--486
Robert Ehrlich Book Review: John M. Charap,
\booktitleExplaining the Universe: The
New Age of Physics. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2002, xii + 226,
\$19.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--478
Antonio Aurilia Book Review: Giuliano Pancaldi,
\booktitleVolta: Science and Culture in
the Age of Enlightenment. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2003, xv +
384 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 478--482
Roger G. Newton Book Review: Peter Pesic,
\booktitleAbel's Proof: An Essay on the
Sources and Meaning of Mathematical
Unsolvability. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT
Press, 2003, viii + 213 pages. \$24.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--484
Allan Franklin Book Review: Susan Haack,
\booktitleDefending Science --- within
reason. Amherst, New York: Prometheus
Books, 2003, 411 pages, \$28.00 (cloth)} 484--485
Laurie M. Brown Book Review: Steven Weinberg,
\booktitleThe Discovery of Subatomic
Particles. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003, xvi + 206.
\$25.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
Anonymous How to Hit a Telephone Pole . . . . . . 486--486
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer 2005: The World Year of Physics . . . . 1--3
Michael Nauenberg Robert Hooke's Seminal Contribution to
Orbital Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--34
Jan Frercks Fizeau's Research Program on Ether Drag:
a Long Quest for a Publishable
Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--65
John Greenberg and
William A. Fowler A Conversation with William A. Fowler
---- Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--106
Ann M. Hentschel Peripatetic Highlights in Bern . . . . . 107--129
M. J. Harrison Book Review: Andrew Warwick,
\booktitleMasters of Theory: Cambridge
and the Rise of Mathematical Physics.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2003, xiv + 572 pages. \$85.00 (cloth),
\$29.00 (paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--132
Michael J. Harrison and
Edwin F. Taylor and
Peter J. Ramberg Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--134
Edwin F. Taylor Book Review: Richard Wolfson,
\booktitleSimply Einstein: Relativity
Demystified. New York: W. W. Norton,
2003, 272 pages. \$13.95 (paper)} . . . 132--133
Peter J. Ramberg Book Review: Richard Morris,
\booktitleThe Last Sorcerers: The Path
from Alchemy to the Periodic Table.
Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press,
2003, xi + 225, \$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . 134--134
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer ``Lest We Forget \ldots'' . . . . . . . 135--137
Lawrence Badash American physicists, nuclear weapons in
World War II, and social responsibility 138--149
John Krige Isidor I. Rabi and CERN . . . . . . . . 150--164
John Greenberg and
William A. Fowler A Conversation with William A. Fowler
--- Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--203
Tibor Frank Ever Ready to Go: The Multiple Exiles of
Leo Szilard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--252
D. C. Cassidy Book Review: Werner Heisenberg,
\booktitleLiebe Eltern! Briefe aus
kritischer Zeit 1918 bis 1945. [(German)
[Dear parents! Letters from a critical
time 1918 to 1945]]. Edited by Anna
Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg. With a foreword
by Helmut Rechenberg. Munich, Germany:
Langen Müller in der F. A. Herbig
Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2003, 400 pages.
\EURO 26.00 (cloth) . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
David C. Cassidy and
Karl Giberson and
Nai-Chang Yeh and
Robert N. Compton Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--263
Karl Giberson Book Review: Stephen M. Barr,
\booktitleModern Physics and Ancient
Faith. Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 2003, xii + 313 pages.
\$30.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
Nai-Chang Yeh Book Review: Jean Matricon and Georges
Waysand, \booktitleThe Cold Wars: A
History of Superconductivity, translated
from the French by Charles Glashausser.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 2003, xiii + 272 pages, \$26.00
(paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261
R. N. Compton Book Review: Kenneth W. Ford,
\booktitleThe Quantum World: Quantum
Physics for Everyone. Cambridge, Mass.
and London: Harvard University Press,
2004, xii + 270 pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} 262--263
Anonymous Rutherford is Crazy . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Faith of Our Fathers . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
Shaul Katzir Poincaré's Relativistic Physics: Its
Origins and Nature . . . . . . . . . . . 268--292
Dieter Hoffmann Between autonomy and accommodation: The
German Physical Society during the Third
Reich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--329
Robert P. Crease Quenched! The ISABELLE Saga, I . . . . . 330--376
Mary Domski Book Review: Jed Z. Buchwald and I.
Bernard Cohen, ed., \booktitleIsaac
Newton's Natural Philosophy [Dibner
Institute Studies in the History of
Science and Technology]. Cambridge,
Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001, xx + 354
pages. \$55.00 (cloth), \$22.00 (paper) 377--380
Mary Domski and
Daniel F. Styer and
A. P. French and
Daniel M. Greenberger Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--386
D. F. Styer Book Review: Tony Hey and Patrick
Walters, \booktitleThe New Quantum
Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003, xv + 357 pages.
\$35.00 (paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381
A. P. French Book Review: Olivier Darrigol,
\booktitleElectrodynamics from Amp\`ere
to Einstein. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2003, xix + 532 pages. \$75.00
(paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
D. M. Greenberger Book Review: Jim Baggott,
\booktitleBeyond Measure: Modern
Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of
Quantum Theory. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004, 379 pp. \$74.50
(cloth), \$34.50 (paper) . . . . . . . . 384--386
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Do Physicists Understand
Physics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
Paul Halpern Peter Bergmann: The Education of a
Physicist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--403
Robert P. Crease Quenched! The ISABELLE Saga, II . . . . 404--452
Benjamin Bederson In appreciation: Fritz Reiche and the
Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced
Foreign Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--472
R. W. Home The Physical Tourist: Physics in
Melbourne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--490
Renee D. Diehl Albert Einstein's vision: remarkable
discoveries that shaped modern science 491--492
Michelle B. Larson Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
Virginia Trimble The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of
an Urban Astrophysicist . . . . . . . . 492--494
Henry J. Folse Quantum mechanics and the philosophy of
Alfred North Whitehead . . . . . . . . . 494--496
Mark P. Silverman Schrödinger's Rabbits: The Many Worlds of
Quantum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--498
Roger H. Stuewer George de Hevesy/Loránd Eötvös:
Scientist--Teacher/Eugene P. Wigner and
his Hungarian Teachers . . . . . . . . . 498--499
Roy F. Schwitters Book Review: Andrew Watson,
\booktitleThe Quantum Quark. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004, x +
464 pages. \$30.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 499--501
Michelle B. Larson Book Review: Keith J. Laidler,
\booktitleScience and Sensibility: The
Elegant Logic of the Universe. Amherst,
New York: Prometheus Books, 2004, 233
pages. \$28.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 501--502
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer \booktitlePhysics in Perspective: New
Features to Begin the Eighth Year . . . 1--2
Ruth Lewin Sime The politics of memory: Otto Hahn and
the Third Reich . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--51
Peter Heering Regular Twists: Replicating Coulomb's
Wire-Torsion Experiments . . . . . . . . 52--63
Jaume Navarro Early attempts to detect the neutrino at
the Cavendish Laboratory . . . . . . . . 64--82
Robert Ehrlich What Makes a Theory Testable, or Is
Intelligent Design Less Scientific Than
String Theory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89
Per F. Dahl Berkeley and Its Physics Heritage . . . 90--101
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [\booktitleClassic Feynman:
All the Adventures of a Curious
Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006)
[combines \booktitleSurely You're Joking
Mr. Feynman and \booktitleWhat Do You
Care What Other People Think?];
\booktitleTips on Physics: A
Problem-Solving Supplement to the
Feynman Lectures on Physics (San
Francisco: Pearson Addison Wesley,
2006)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Roger H. Stuewer Book Review: Carlo Bernardini and Luisa
Bonolis, ed., \booktitleEnrico Fermi:
His Work and Legacy. Bologna: Societ\`a
Italiana di Fisica and Berlin,
Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag,
2004, xii + 411 pages. \$49.95 (cloth)} 104--105
Roger H. Stuewer and
Stephen G. Brush and
Charlotte Lowe-Ma and
J. R. Dorfman and
Edward Gerjuoy Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--112
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: Mauro Dardo,
\booktitleNobel Laureates and
Twentieth-Century Physics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004, xi +
533 pages. \$85.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 105--106
Charlotte Lowe-Ma Book Review: Graeme K. Hunter,
\booktitleLight Is a Messenger: The Life
and Science of William Lawrence Bragg.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004,
xxi + 301 pages. \$59.50 (cloth)} . . . 106--107
J. R. Dorfman Book Review: David Lindley,
\booktitleDegrees Kelvin: A Tale of
Genius, Invention, and Tragedy.
Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press,
2004. viii + 366, \$27.95 (cloth)} . . . 107--109
Edward Gerjuoy Book Review: Jeremy Bernstein,
\booktitleOppenheimer: Portrait of an
Enigma. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004, 223
pages. \$25.00 (cloth). David C.
Cassidy, \booktitle{J. Robert
Oppenheimer and the American Century}.
New York: Pi Press, 2005, 462 pages.
\$27.95 (cloth) . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer PSSC physics, Eisenhower, and today, 50
years later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
Mark Walker Otto Hahn: Responsibility and Repression 116--163
Sean F. Johnston Absorbing New Subjects: Holography as an
Analog of Photography . . . . . . . . . 164--188
Catherine Westfall A Different Laboratory Tale: Fifty Years
of Mössbauer Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . 189--213
Klaus Staubermann The physical tourist: Science sights in
Utrecht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--221
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Albert Einstein,
\booktitleThe Meaning of Relativity
(Princeton University Press, 2005);
Jürgen Renn, \booktitleAlbert Einstein:
Chief Engineer of the Universe:
\booktitleEinstein's Life and Work In
Context (vol. 1), \booktitleDocuments of
a Life's Pathway (vol. 2), \booktitleOne
Hundred Authors For Einstein (vol. 3)
(Wiley-VCH 2005)] . . . . . . . . . . . 222--224
P. F. Dahl Book Review: Iwan Rhys Morus,
\booktitleWhen Physics Became King.
Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 2005, xii + 303 pages.
\$25.00 (paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--225
Per F. Dahl and
Nicolaas Bloembergen and
Benjamin Bederson and
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--231
N. Bloembergen Book Review: Jeff Hecht, \booktitleBeam:
The Race to Make the Laser. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005, x + 274
pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 226--226
B. Bederson Book Review: Kai Bird and Martin J.
Sherwin, \booktitleAmerican Prometheus:
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert
Oppenheimer. New York: Alfred A Knopf,
2005, xiii + 721 pages. \$35.00.
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--229
T. B. Greenslade, Jr. Book Review: Robert Fox and Graeme
Gooday, ed., \booktitlePhysics in Oxford
1839--1939: Laboratories, Learning, and
College Life. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005, xxi + 363 pages.
\$134.50\slash \pounds 60.00 (cloth)} 229--231
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Remember the basics . . . . . 233--235
Christian Sichau Storming a Citadel: Mathematical Theory
and Experimental Practice . . . . . . . 236--254
Francesco Guerra and
Matteo Leone and
Nadia Robotti Enrico Fermi's Discovery of
Neutron-Induced Artificial
Radioactivity: Neutrons and Neutron
Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--281
Sara Lippincott A Conversation with Robert F. Christy
--- Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--317
José M. Sánchez-Ron The Physical Tourist: Physics in Madrid:
Where science competed with art . . . . 318--343
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Laurie Brown, ed.,
\booktitleFeynman's Thesis: A New
Approach To Quantum Theory (World
Scientific, 2005); Gordon Fraser, ed.,
\booktitleThe New Physics of the
Twenty-first Century (Cambridge
University Press, 2006)] . . . . . . . . 344--346
Abner Shimony Book Review: GianCarlo Ghirardi,
\booktitleSneaking a Look at God's
Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of
Quantum Mechanics, Revised Edition,
translated from the Italian by Gerald
Malsbary. Princeton and Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2005, xxii +
488 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 347--352
Abner Shimony and
David J. Griffiths and
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--355
David J. Griffiths Book Review: Alberto P. Guimarães,
\booktitleFrom Lodestone to
Supermagnets: Understanding Magnetic
Phenomena. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2005,
xii + 236 pages. \$27.95 (cloth)} . . . 353--354
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: David Park, \booktitleThe
Grand Contraption: The World as Myth,
Number, and Chance. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2005, xiv + 331 pages.
\$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--355
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: The meek weak . . . . . . . . 357--359
Matthias Schemmel The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot and
the force of shared knowledge in early
modern mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--380
Laurie M. Brown Paul A. M. Dirac's \booktitleThe
Principles of Quantum Mechanics . . . . 381--407
Sara Lippincott A Conversation with Robert F. Christy
--- Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--450
Sean F. Johnston The Physical Tourist: Physics in
Glasgow: a Heritage Tour . . . . . . . . 451--465
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Robyn Arianrhod,
\booktitleEinstein's Heroes: Imagining
the World Through the Language of
Mathematics (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006), \$16.95 (paper); Priscilla
J. McMillan, \booktitle{The Ruin of J.
Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the
Modern Arms Race} (New York: Penguin
Books, 2005), \$16.00 (paper)] . . . . . 466--469
Leif Gerward Book Review: Denis Brian, \booktitleThe
Curies: A Biography of the Most
Controversial Family in Science.
Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons,
2005, ix + 438 pages. \$30.00 (cloth)} 470--473
Leif Gerward and
Laurie M. Brown and
J. B. Shank and
John L. Hubisz and
Klaus Staubermann and
William E. Evenson and
David Park and
Randall D. Knight and
Ronald E. Mickens Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--488
Laurie M. Brown Book Review: Michelle Feynman, ed.,
\booktitlePerfectly Reasonable
Deviations from the Beaten Track: The
Letters of Richard P. Feynman. New York,
Basic Books, 2005, xxiii + 486 pages.
\$26.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
J. B. Shank Book Review: C. D. Andriesse,
\booktitleHuygens: The Man Behind the
Principle, translated from the Dutch by
Sally Miedema. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005, xxvi + 440
pages. \$90.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 474--477
John L. Hubisz Book Review: Marcus Hellyer,
\booktitleCatholic Physics: Jesuit
Natural Philosophy in Early Modern
Germany. Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 2005, xii + 337 pages.
\$50.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Klaus Staubermann Book Review: Klaus Hentschel,
\booktitleGaussens unsichtbare Hand: Der
Universitäts-Mechanicus und
Maschinen-Inspector Moritz Meyerstein:
Ein Instrumentenbauer im 19.
Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2005, 321 pages. EUR 79.00
(cloth). [Gauss's invisible hand: the
university mechanics and machine
inspector Moritz Meyerstein: an
instrument maker in the 19th Century] 479--479
William E. Evenson The world of Andrei Sakharov: a Russian
physicist's path to freedom . . . . . . 480--481
David Park Book Review: Gerald Holton,
\booktitleVictory and Vexation in
Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and
Others. Cambridge, Mass. and London:
Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv +
229 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 481--483
Randall D. Knight Inventing temperature: Measurement and
scientific progress . . . . . . . . . . 483--486
Ronald E. Mickens Converging realities: Toward a common
philosophy of physics and mathematics 486--488
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: FAPP . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Augusto José dos Santos Fitas and
António Augusto Passos Videira Guido Beck, Alexandre Proca, and the
Oporto Theoretical Physics Seminar . . . 4--25
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Philipp Frank, Richard von Mises, and
the Frank--Mises . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--57
Ronald G. Larson Perspectives on current issues is
``anthropic selection'' science? . . . . 58--69
Kimball A. Milton In appreciation: Julian Schwinger: From
nuclear physics and quantum
electrodynamics to source theory and
beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--114
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Peter Dear, \booktitleThe
Intelligibility of Science: How Science
Makes Sense of the World, (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2006);
Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner,
\booktitleQuantum Enigma: Physics
Encounters Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006)] . . . . . . . . 115--117
Ruth Lewin Sime Book Review: Barbara Goldsmith,
\booktitleObsessive Genius: The Inner
World of Marie Curie. New York: W. W.
Norton & Company, 2005, 257 pages +
Reading Group Guide. \$14.95 (paper)} 118--118
Robert C. Hilborn Book Review: Robert B. Laughlin,
\booktitleA Different Universe:
Reinventing Physics from the Bottom
Down. New York: Basic Books, 2006, xviii
+ 254 pages. \$16.00 (paper)} . . . . . 118--120
Ruth Lewin Sime and
Robert C. Hilborn and
G. Peter Lepage and
Robert Greenler and
Virginia Trimble Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--125
G. Peter Lepage Book Review: David Kaiser,
\booktitleDrawing Theories Apart: The
Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in
Postwar Physics. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2005, xix + 469 pages.
\$30.00 (paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Robert Greenler Book Review: Peter Pesic, \booktitleSky
in a Bottle. Cambridge, Mass. and
London: The MIT Press, 2005, 262 pages.
\$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Virginia Trimble Book Review: Jose Wudka,
\booktitleSpace-Time, Relativity, and
Cosmology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005, ix + 320 pages.
\$55.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Will the US lead or follow? 127--129
Frank A. J. L. James and
Anthony Peers Constructing space for science at the
Royal Institution of Great Britain . . . 130--185
Pim Huijnen and
A. J. Kox Paul Ehrenfest's rough road to Leiden: a
physicist's search for a position,
1904--1912 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--211
Jeroen Van Dongen Reactionaries and Einstein's Fame:
``German Scientists for the Preservation
of Pure Science,'' Relativity, and the
Bad Nauheim Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 212--230
Jan Lacki The Physical Tourist: Geneva: From the
science of the Enlightenment to CERN . . 231--252
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Mark Haw, \booktitleMiddle
World: The Restless Heart of Matter and
Life (New York: Macmillian, 2007,
\$24.95); Committee on Elementary
Particle Physics in the 21st Century,
\booktitle{Revealing the Hidden Nature
of Space and Time: Charting the Course
for Elementary Particle Physics}}] . . . 253--255
William E. Brinkman Book Review: Joel N. Shurkin,
\booktitleBroken Genius: The Rise and
Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the
Electronic Age. New York: Macmillan,
2006, x + 297 pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} 256--256
William Brinkman and
Gerald Holton and
Mark P. Silverman Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--262
Gerald Holton Book Review: Jeffrey Crelinsten,
\booktitleEinstein's Jury: The Race to
Test Relativity. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2006, xxix + 397
pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 257--259
Mark P. Silverman Book Review: Al Gore, \booktitleAn
Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary
Emergence of Global Warming And What We
Can Do About It. New York: Rodale, 2006,
328 pages. \$21.95 (paper)} . . . . . . 259--262
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
Max Jammer Concepts of Time in Physics: a Synopsis 266--280
Giorgio Dragoni and
Giulio Maltese and
Luisa Atti Quirino Majorana's Experiments on the
Speed of Light and Gravitational
Absorption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--304
Ad Maas Einstein as Engineer: The Case of the
Little Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--328
Antonino Drago and
Salvatore Esposito Ettore Majorana's Course on Theoretical
Physics: a Recent Discovery . . . . . . 329--345
Philip L. Taylor and
William J. Fickinger In appreciation: Multiple scattering:
Leslie Foldy's winding road through
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--356
Wolfgang L. Reiter In memoriam: Ludwig Boltzmann: a Life of
Passion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--374
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [David Lindley,
\booktitleUncertainty: Einstein,
Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for
the Soul of Science (New York:
Doubleday, 2007, 257 pages, \$32.00);
Stuart Clark, \booktitle{The Sun Kings:
The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard
Carrington and the Tale of How Modern
Astronomy Began} (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2007, xii + 211 pages,
\$24.95)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--377
Robert M. Wald Book Review: Michael Lockwood,
\booktitleThe Labyrinth of Time:
Introducing the Universe. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005, vii + 405
pages. \$34.50 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 378--379
Robert M. Wald and
John S. Rigden and
Stanley T. Jones and
Jeff Hecht Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--385
John S. Rigden Book Review: Valerio Scarani,
\booktitleQuantum Physics: A First
Encounter, Interference, Entanglement,
and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006, xvii + 125 pages. \$34.50
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
Stanley T. Jones Book Review: Jurgen Audretsch, ed.,
\booktitleEntangled World: The
Fascination of Quantum Information and
Computation, translated from the German
by Rudolph Ehrlich. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH,
2006, xii + 300 pages. \$35.95 (cloth)} 381--383
Jeff Hecht Book Review: Sean F. Johnston,
\booktitleHolographic Visions: A History
of New Science. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006, 568 pages.
\$124.50 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . 383--385
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Physicists: Head and heart 387--389
Paul Halpern Klein, Einstein, and Five-Dimensional
Unification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--405
Roland Wittje Nuclear Physics in Norway, 1933--1955 406--433
Sara Lippincott A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi
--- Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--467
John Henry The Physical Tourist: Physics in
Edinburgh: From Napier's bones to
Higgs's boson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--501
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [\booktitleUndermining
Science: Suppression and Distortion in
the Bush Administration by Seth Shulman
(University of California Press, 2006,
\$24.95); Gino Segr{\`e},
\booktitle{Faust in Copenhagen: A
Struggle for the Soul of Physics}
(Viking, 2007, \$25.95)] . . . . . . . . 502--504
Daniel Kleppner Book Review: Abraham Pais, \booktitleJ.
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life, with
supplemental material by Robert P.
Crease. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006, xxii + 353 pages. \$30.00 (cloth)} 505--508
Daniel Kleppner and
Barry R. Masters and
Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. and
Allan Franklin and
Anders Carlsson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--515
Barry R. Masters Book Review: Mario Biagioli,
\booktitleGalileo's Instruments of
Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2006, 302 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} 508--510
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. Book Review: Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
\booktitleThinking with Objects: The
Transformation of Mechanics in the
Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2006, xii +
389 pages. \$29.95 (paper)} . . . . . . 510--512
Allan Franklin Book Review: Ronald Giere,
\booktitleScientific Perspectivism.
Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 2006, 151 pages. \$30.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--514
Anders Carlsson Book Review: Eric Schneider and Dorion
Sagan, \booktitleInto the Cool: Energy
Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005, xix +
362 pages. \$22.50 (paper)} . . . . . . 514--515
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Michael A. Day E. U. Condon: Science, religion, and the
politics of world peace . . . . . . . . 4--55
Francesco Guerra and
Nadia Robotti Ettore Majorana's Forgotten Publication
on the Thomas--Fermi Model . . . . . . . 56--76
Sara Lippincott and
Judith R. Goodstein A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi
--- Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--109
A. P. French In memoriam: Philip Morrison . . . . . . 110--122
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Gerald E. Brown and
Chang-Hwan Lee, Editors, \booktitleHans
Bethe and His Physics, (Singapore: World
Scientific, 2006)] . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Hans C. Ohanian Book Review: Jean Eisenstaedt,
\booktitleThe Curious History of
Relativity: How Einstein's Theory was
Lost and Found Again. Translated from
the French by Arturo Sangalli.
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2006, ix + 363 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} 126--127
Hans C. Ohanian and
Virginia Trimble and
Thomas D. Rossing and
Michael W. Friedlander Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--134
Virginia Trimble Book Review: Brigitte Strohmaier and
Robert Rosner, \booktitleMarietta Blau
--- Stars of Disintegration: Biography
of a Pioneer of Particle Physics.
Translated and expanded from the German.
Riverside, California: Ariadne Press,
2006, [iv] + 220 pages. \$27.00 (paper);
Robert Rosner and Brigitte Strohmaier,
ed., \booktitle{Marietta Blau --- Sterne
der Zertr{\"u}mmerung: Biographie einer
Wegbereiterin der modernen
Teilchenphysik}. Wien, K{\"o}ln, Weimar:
B{\"o}hlau Verlag, 2003 [Reviewed by
Roger H. Stuewer, \booktitle{Physics in
Perspective} {\bf 6} (2004),
362{\-}-364]} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
Thomas D. Rossing Book Review: Myles W. Jackson,
\booktitleHarmonious Triads: Physicists,
Musicians, and Instrument Makers in
Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge,
Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006, x + 395
pages. \$40.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 130--131
Michael W. Friedlander Book Review: Arthur I. Miller,
\booktitleEmpire of the Stars:
Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in
the Quest for Black Holes. New York,
Houghton Mifflin, 2005, xiv + 400 pages.
\$26.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--134
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Will economics end the
physics that captivates the public? . . 135--137
Osvaldo Pessoa, Jr. and
Olival Freire, Jr. and
Alexis De Greiff The Tausk controversy on the foundations
of quantum mechanics: Physics,
philosophy, and politics . . . . . . . . 138--162
Joseph I. Kapusta Accelerator Disaster Scenarios, the
Unabomber, and Scientific Risks . . . . 163--181
Allan Franklin Are the Laws of Physics Inevitable? . . 182--211
Matthew Trainer In memoriam: Lord Kelvin, recipient of
the John Fritz Medal in 1905 . . . . . . 212--223
Wolfgang Schreier and
Karl-Heinz Schlote The Physical Tourist: Physics in
Leipzig: An amble through the centuries 224--243
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F.
Kett, and James S. Trefil, \booktitleThe
New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy;
James Trefil \booktitleWhy Science?
(Teachers College Press and NSTA Press,
2008)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
Arthur Stinner Book Review: István Hargittai,
\booktitleThe Martians of Science: Five
Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth
Century. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006, xxiv + 313 pages. \$34.50
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--252
Arthur Stinner and
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
David Goodstein Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--254
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Roger G. Newton,
\booktitleFrom Clockwork to Crapshoot: A
History of Physics. Cambridge, Mass. and
London: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2007, 340 pages.
\$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--254
David Goodstein Book Review: Helge S. Kragh,
\booktitleConceptions of Cosmos --- From
Myths to the Accelerating Universe:
History of Cosmology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007, 276 pages.
\$70.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Christopher M. Graney But still, it moves: Tides, stellar
parallax, and Galileo's commitment to
the Copernican theory . . . . . . . . . 258--268
Jeremy Bernstein John Bell and the Identical Twins . . . 269--286
Sidney Borowitz The Norwegian and the Englishman . . . . 287--294
Dwight E. Neuenschwander and
Sallie A. Watkins In appreciation: Professional and
Personal Coherence: The Life and Work of
Melba Newell Phillips . . . . . . . . . 295--364
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Richard Muller,
\booktitlePhysics for Future Presidents
(W. W. Norton, 2008, \$24.95); George
Saliba \booktitle{Islamic Science and
the Making of the European Renaissance}
(MIT Press, 2007, \$40.00)] . . . . . . 365--367
William E. Evenson Book Review: Nina Byers and Gary
Williams, ed., \booktitleOut of the
Shadows: Contributions of
Twentieth-Century Women to Physics.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2006, 498 pages.
\$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
William E. Evenson and
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
Bernard J. Feldman and
Benjamin Bederson and
Lee G. Sobotka and
Hans C. Ohanian Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--376
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Daniel Kennefick,
\booktitleTraveling at the Speed of
Thought: Einstein and the Quest for
Gravitational Waves. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007, xii +
319 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 369--371
Bernard J. Feldman Book Review: Mark Denny,
\booktitleIngenium: Five Machines that
Changed the World. Baltimore: The John
Hopkins University Press, 2007, xvi +
176 pages. \$25.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 371--372
Benjamin Bederson Book Review: Cynthia C. Kelly, ed.,
\booktitleThe Manhattan Project: The
Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of
its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and
Historians. New York: Black Dog and
Leventhal Publishers, 2007, 495 pages.
\$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374
Lee G. Sobotka Book Review: Eric R. Scerri,
\booktitleThe Periodic Table: Its Story
and Significance. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007, xxii + 346
pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 374--375
Hans C. Ohanian Book Review: Sander Bais, \booktitleVery
Special Relativity: An Illustrated
Guide. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2007, 120 pages.
\$20.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Public intellectuals needed 377--378
Helge Kragh Pierre Duhem, Entropy, and Christian
Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--395
Gary J. Weisel Properties and Phenomena: Basic Plasma
Physics and Fusion Research in Postwar
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--437
Robert P. Crease The National Synchrotron Light Source,
Part I: Bright Idea . . . . . . . . . . 438--467
Michael Berry and
Brian Pollard The Physical Tourist: Physics in Bristol 468--480
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [J. R. Leibowitz,
\booktitleHidden Harmony: The Connected
Worlds of Physics and Art (Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008, \$24.95)}] . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Thomas M. Berez Book Review: Klaus Hentschel,
\booktitleThe Mental Aftermath: The
Mentality of German Physicists,
1945--1949, translated from the German
by Ann M. Hentschel. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007, vi + 205 pages.
\$49.50 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
Thomas M. Berez and
William E. Evenson and
Kenneth W. Ford and
Ruth Lewin Sime and
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Naomi Pasachoff Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--491
William E. Evenson Book Review: Richard J. Weiss,
\booktitleA Physicist Remembers.
Singapore: World Scientific, 2007, ix +
261 pages. \$42.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 485--486
Kenneth W. Ford Book Review: Jeremy Bernstein,
\booktitleNuclear Weapons: What You Need
to Know. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007, xii + 299 pages. \$27.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Ruth Lewin Sime Book Review: Dieter Hoffmann and Mark
Walker, ed., \booktitlePhysiker zwischen
Autonomie und Anpassung: Die Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft im Dritten
Reich. (German) [Physicists between
autonomy and adjustment: The German
Physical Society in the Third Reich],
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2007, xii +
675 pages. \EURO 99.00 (cloth) . . . . . 487--489
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Naomi Pasachoff Book Review: Kristine Larsen,
\booktitleStephen Hawking: A Biography.
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books,
2007, 215 pages. \$16.95 (paper)} . . . 489--491
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Will It Be a Bang or a
Whimper? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Lawrence Badash The Near-Appointment of Linus Pauling at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--14
Robert P. Crease The National Synchrotron Light Source,
Part II: The Bakeout . . . . . . . . . . 15--45
Laszlo Tisza Adventures of a Theoretical Physicist,
Part I: Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--97
Roman Jackiw Hans Bethe, My Teacher . . . . . . . . . 98--103
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Shahn Majid, ed.,
\booktitleOn Space and Time (Cambridge
University Press, 2008, xx + 287 pages,
\$26.00); S{\'e}bast{\'\i}en
Bal{\'\i}bar, \booktitle{The Atom and
the Apple: Twelve Tales from
Contemporary Physics} (Princeton
University Press, 2008, x + 190 pages,
\$24.95)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Richard Noer Book Review: Michael J. Crowe,
\booktitleMechanics from Aristotle to
Einstein. Santa Fe: Green Lion Press,
2007, xxii + 332 pages. \$17.95 (paper)} 106--107
Richard Noer and
Paul G. Nyce and
Virginia Trimble and
Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. and
Charles H. Holbrow Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--116
Paul G. Nyce Book Review: Matthew Stanley,
\booktitlePractical Mystic: Religion,
Science, and A. S. Eddington. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 2007, x
+ 313 pages. \$37.50 (cloth)} . . . . . 107--109
Virginia Trimble Book Review: Helge S. Kragh,
\booktitleConceptions of the Cosmos:
From Myths to the Accelerating Universe:
A History of Cosmology. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007, viii + 276
pages. \$85.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 109--111
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. Book Review: Lissa Roberts, Simon
Schaffer, and Peter Dear, ed.,
\booktitleThe Mindful Hand; Inquiry and
Invention from the Late Renaissance to
Early Industrialisation. Amsterdam:
Koninkliijke Nederlandse Akademie van
Wetenschappen, 2007, xxvii + 503 pages.
\$110.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Charles H. Holbrow Book Review: David E. Rowe and Robert
Schulmann, ed., \booktitleEinstein on
Politics: His Private Thoughts and
Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism,
War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007, xxxvi
+ 524 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . 112--115
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Laszlo Tisza Adventures of a Theoretical Physicist,
Part II: America . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--168
Gennady Gorelik The Paternity of the H-Bombs:
Soviet-American Perspectives . . . . . . 169--197
Walter A. Harrison Finding the Energy Bands of Silicon . . 198--208
Paul Halpern Philadelphia: Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . 209--227
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak,
and Ken Willcox, \booktitleTotality:
Eclipses of the Sun (Third Edition,
Oxford University Press, 2008, \$34.95);
Don Lincoln, \booktitle{The Quantum
Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider}
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009,
\$25.00)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
Benjamin Bederson Book Review: Sheilla Jones,
\booktitleThe Quantum Ten: A Story of
Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
xii + 340 pages. \$22.95 (paper)} . . . 231--232
Benjamin Bederson and
Donald E. Hall and
Allan Franklin and
David Goodstein and
Kenneth W. Ford Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--239
Donald E. Hall Book Review: Leo Beranek,
\booktitleRiding the Waves: A Life in
Sound, Science, and Industry. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2008, x + 235 pages. \$24.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--235
Allan Franklin Book Review: Helen R. Quinn and Yossi
Nir, \booktitleThe Mystery of the
Missing Antimatter. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2008, xii + 278 pages.
\$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
David Goodstein Book Review: Alan Sokal,
\booktitleBehind the Hoax: Science,
Philosophy, and Culture. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008, xxi + 465 pages.
\$34.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
Kenneth W. Ford Book Review: Charis Anastopoulos,
\booktitleParticle or Wave: The
Evolution of the Concept of Matter in
Modern Physics. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2008, xx + 410 pages.
\$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: The SSC and the Hubble: a
Predictable Lesson For Physicists . . . 241--243
Silvio R. Dahmen Boltzmann and the Art of Flying . . . . 244--260
S. S. Schweber Weimar Physics: Sommerfeld's Seminar and
the Causality Principle . . . . . . . . 261--301
Maria Cecilia von Reichenbach Richard Gans: The First Quantum
Physicist in Latin America . . . . . . . 302--317
Giacomo Grasso and
Carlo Oppici and
Federico Rocchi and
Marco Sumini A Neutronics Study of the 1945
Haigerloch B-VIII Nuclear Reactor . . . 318--335
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Dan Hooper,
\booktitleNature's Blueprint:
Supersymmetry and the Search For a
Unified Theory of Matter and Force
(HarperCollins 2008, 230 pages,
\$24.95)}] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
Allan Franklin Essay Review: Objectivity . . . . . . . 338--346
Mark Alford Book Review: Gordon Fraser,
\booktitleCosmic Anger: Abdus Salam ---
The First Muslim Nobel Scientist.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008,
xiii + 305 pages. \$49.95 (cloth)} . . . 347--348
Mark Alford and
Jeff Hughes and
Gino Segré and
Benjamin Bederson Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--353
Jeff Hughes Book Review: Maria Rentetzi,
\booktitleTrafficking Materials and
Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium
Research in Early 20th Century Vienna.
0-231-50959-6. Gutenberg, Columbia
University Press. 2007 . . . . . . . . . 348--350
Gino Segr\`e Book Review: Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne
W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall,
\booktitleFermilab: Physics, the
Frontier, and Megascience. Chicago, The
University of Chicago Press, 2008, 497
pages. \$45.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 350--351
Benjamin Bederson Book Review: David C. Cassidy,
\booktitleBeyond Uncertainty:
Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the
Bomb. New York: Bellevue Literary Press,
2009, 456 pages. \$27.00 (cloth)} . . . 351--353
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
John Crepeau Loschmidt, Stefan, and Stigler's Law of
Eponymy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--378
Francesco Guerra and
Nadia Robotti Enrico Fermi's Discovery of
Neutron-Induced Artificial
Radioactivity: The Influence of His
Theory of Beta Decay . . . . . . . . . . 379--404
Dieter Hoffmann Fritz Lange, Klaus Fuchs, and the
Remigration of Scientists to East
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--425
B. Cameron Reed Centrifugation during the Manhattan
Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--441
Edvige Schettino The Physics Museum of the University of
Naples ``Federico II'' . . . . . . . . . 442--453
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Alan Hirshfeld,
\booktitleEureka Man: The Life and
Legacy of Archimedes (New York: Walker
and Company, 2009, viii + 228 pages);
Francesco Guerra and Nadia Robotti,
\booktitleEttore Majorana: Aspects of
His Scientific and Academic Activity
(Pisa: Edizioni Della Normale, 2008, xii
+ 243 pages)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456
Guy Emery Book Review: John Jenkin,
\booktitleWilliam and Lawrence Bragg,
Father and Son: the most extraordinary
collaboration in science. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2008, xv + 458
pages. \$70.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 457--462
Gregory A. Good and
Guy Emery and
Benjamin Bederson and
Michael W. Friedlander Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--468
Benjamin Bederson Book Review: Bruce Rosenblum and Fred
Kuttner, \booktitleQuantum Enigma:
Physics Encounters Consciousness. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 224
pages. \$15.95 (paper). G{\"u}nther
Nimtz and Astrid Haibel, \booktitle{Zero
Time Space: How Quantum Tunneling Broke
the Light Speed Barrier}. Translated
from the German by Hans-Joachim Nimtz.
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Press, 2008, xvi +
150 pages. \$34.95 (paper) . . . . . . . 462--464
Michael W. Friedlander Book Review: Kelly Moore,
\booktitleDisrupting Science. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2008, x +
311 pages. \$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 465--466
Gregory A. Good Book Review: Silvan S. Schweber,
\booktitleEinstein and Oppenheimer: The
Meaning of Genius. Cambridge, Mass. and
London: Harvard University Press, 2008,
ix + 412 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . 467--468
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Christopher M. Graney Seeds of a Tychonic Revolution:
Telescopic Observations of the Stars by
Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius . . . . 4--24
Ildikó J. Vincze and
István Jankovics Eugen von Gothard and His X-Ray
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--35
Jeremy Bernstein John von Neumann and Klaus Fuchs: an
Unlikely Collaboration . . . . . . . . . 36--50
Ray Essen Louis Essen and the Velocity of Light:
From Wartime Radar to Unit of Length . . 51--73
John David Jackson A Personal Adventure in Muon-Catalyzed
Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--88
Gerd Kortemeyer and
Catherine Westfall The Physical Tourist . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Jeremy Bernstein,
\booktitleQuantum Leaps (Harvard
University Press 2009, vi + 230 pages,
\$18.95); John Close,
\booktitle{Nothing: a very short
introduction} (Oxford University Press,
2009, 157 pages, \$11.95)] . . . . . . . 100--101
Frederick M. Kronz Book Review: Alisa Bokulich,
\booktitleReexamining the
Quantum--Classical Relation: Beyond
Reductionism and Pluralism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008, x +
195 pages. \$80.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 102--105
Frederick M. Kronz and
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Naomi Pasachoff and
John L. Roeder and
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
Peter Lindenfeld and
Ruth Lewin Sime Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--117
Jay M. Pasachoff and
Naomi Pasachoff Book Review: Helge Kragh, \booktitleThe
Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus'
Spurious Satellite. Basel: Birkhäuser
Verlag, 2008, 199 pages. \$59.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
John L. Roeder Book Review: Nicolaas A. Rupke,
\booktitleAlexander von Humboldt: A
Metabiography. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2008, 316 pages. \$21.00
(paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Maria Rentetzi,
\booktitleTrafficking Materials and
Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium
Research in Early 20th Century Vienna.
New York: Columbia University Press,
2008, xxiii + 291 pages. \$60.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--112
Peter Lindenfeld Book Review: Deborah R. Coen,
\booktitleVienna in the Age of
Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and
Private Life. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press, 2007, xi +
380 pages. \$45.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 112--115
Ruth Lewin Sime Book Review: Martijn Eickhoff,
\booktitleIn the name of science? P. J.
W. Debye and his career in Nazi Germany.
Translated by Peter Mason. Amsterdam:
Aksant, 2008, 184 pages. \EURO 24.90
(paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117
Anonymous Cardinal Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Are Talks By Physicists Weakened By
Their Props? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121
Michael S. Reidy John Tyndall's Vertical Physics: From
Rock Quarries to Icy Peaks . . . . . . . 122--145
Trevor C. Weekes The Nineteenth-Century Spiral Nebula
Whodunit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--162
Milena Wazeck The 1922 Einstein Film: Cinematic
Innovation and Public Controversy . . . 163--179
Ursula Pavlish Robert Vivian Pound and the Discovery of
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Condensed
Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--189
Ruth Lewin Sime An Inconvenient History: the
Nuclear-Fission Display in the Deutsches
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--218
Claus Habfast The DESY Golden Jubilee in Hamburg:
Lessons from the Past . . . . . . . . . 219--230
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Richard Holmes,
\booktitleThe Age of Wonder: How the
Romantic Generation Discovered the
Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon
Books, 2008, xxi + 552 pages, \$40);
Curt Suplee, \booktitle{The Plasma
Universe} (Cambridge University Press,
2009, xii + 76 pages, \$20.99)] . . . . 231--233
Sidney Perkowitz Book Review: Theresa Levitt,
\booktitleThe Shadow of Enlightenment:
Optical and Political Transparency in
France 1789--1848. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009, 304 pages.
\$70.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Sidney Perkowitz and
Hans C. Ohanian and
Thomas Ryckman and
Arlo U. Landolt Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--243
Hans C. Ohanian Book Review: Alberto A. Martinez,
\booktitleKinematics: The Lost Origins
of Einstein's Relativity. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009,
xix + 464 pages. \$65.00 (cloth)} . . . 236--238
Thomas Ryckman Book Review: Hermann Weyl,
\booktitleMind and Nature: Selected
Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and
Physics. Edited and with an introduction
by Peter Pesic. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2009, 272 pages.
\$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--242
Arlo U. Landolt Book Review: Carlos I. Calle,
\booktitleThe Universe: Order Without
Design. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books,
2009, 304 pages. \$27.98 (cloth)} . . . 242--243
Piet Hein Wide Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Has the Media Forgotten Physics? . . . . 245--247
Yves Gingras The Transformation of Physics from 1900
to 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--265
Thomas O'Connor The Scientific Work of John A.
McClelland: a Recently Discovered
Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--306
Martin J. Klein Paul Ehrenfest, Niels Bohr, and Albert
Einstein: Colleagues and Friends . . . . 307--337
Katherine R. Sopka and
Elisabeth M. Sopka The Bonebrake Theological Seminary:
Top-Secret Manhattan Project Site . . . 338--349
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Graham Farmelo,
\booktitleThe Strangest Man: The Hidden
Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
(Basic Books, 2009, 539 pages, \$29.95);
Vlatko Vedral, \booktitle{Decoding
Reality: The Universe as Quantum
Information} (Oxford University Press,
2010, x + 229 pages, \$29.95)] . . . . . 350--352
Naomi Pasachoff Book Review: Harry Nussbaumer and Lydia
Bieri, \booktitleDiscovering the
Expanding Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009, 226 pages.
\$59.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
Naomi Pasachoff and
Allan Franklin and
David C. Cassidy and
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
Catherine Westfall and
Gino Segr\`e Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--367
Allan Franklin Book Review: Patricia Fara,
\booktitleScience: A Four Thousand Year
History. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2009, xv + 408 pages. \$34.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--358
David C. Cassidy Book Review: Lawrence Badash,
\booktitleA Nuclear Winter's Tale:
Science and Politics in the 1980s.
Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2009,
xiii + 403 pages. \$40.00 (cloth)} . . . 358--361
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Laura Dassow Walls,
\booktitleThe Passage to Cosmos:
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping
of America. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2009, xv + 404 pages.
\$35.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
Catherine Westfall Book Review: Sean Johnson,
\booktitleHistory of Science: A
Beginner's Guide. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009, viii + 218
pages. \$14.95 (paper)} . . . . . . . . 364--365
Gino Segr\`e Book Review: João Magueijo, \booktitleA
Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary
Life and Mysterious Disappearance of
Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of
the Nuclear Age. New York: Basic Books,
2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--367
Piet Hein Occupational Hazard . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Can the Humanities Help Science? . . . . 369--371
Cristina Olivotto and
Antonella Testa Galileo and the Movies . . . . . . . . . 372--395
Simón Reif-Acherman Henri Victor Regnault: Experimentalist
of the Science of Heat . . . . . . . . . 396--442
Paul Halpern Washington: a DC Circuit Tour . . . . . 443--466
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [E. Brian Davies,
\booktitleWhy Beliefs Matter:
Reflections On the Nature of Science,
(Oxford University Press, 2010, vii +
250 pages, \$45.00)}] . . . . . . . . . 467--469
Harry Lustig Essay Review: The Life and Times of
Werner Heisenberg. David C. Cassidy,
\booktitleBeyond Uncertainty:
Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the
Bomb. New York: Bellevue Literary Press,
2009, 480 pages. \$27.00 (cloth)} . . . 470--496
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Arthur I. Miller,
\booktitleDeciphering the Cosmic Number:
The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli
and Carl Jung. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 2009, xxv + 336 pages. \$27.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--499
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
Gino Segr\`e and
Edwin F. Taylor and
Kimball A. Milton Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--505
Gino Segr\`e Book Review: Guido Bacciagaluppi and
Antony Valentini, \booktitleQuantum
Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering
the 1927 Solvay Conference. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2009, xxv +
530 pages. \$126.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . 499--501
Edwin F. Taylor Book Review: Fulvio Melia,
\booktitleCracking the Einstein Code:
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole
Physics. With an Afterward by Roy Kerr.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2009, 152 pages. \$25.00 (cloth)} . . . 502--503
Kimball A. Milton Book Review: Steven Weinberg,
\booktitleLake Views. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2009, x + 259
pages. \$26.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 503--505
Anonymous The Twelve Stages . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Constancy Directs Change . . . . . . . . 1--3
Helge Kragh Resisting the Bohr Atom: The Early
British Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . 4--35
Charles H. Holbrow Dick Crane's California Days . . . . . . 36--57
Luisa Bonolis Bruno Rossi and the Racial Laws of
Fascist Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--90
John S. Rigden Edward Mills Purcell, August 30,
1912--March 7, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 91--103
Roman Jackiw Celebration of Gerry . . . . . . . . . . 104--109
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Timothy Ferris,
\booktitleThe Science of Liberty:
Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of
Nature (HarperCollins 2010, 368 pages,
\$26.99); Frank Close,
\booktitle{Neutrino} (Oxford 2010, x +
181 pages, \$18.95)] . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
Ta-Pei Cheng Book Review: Gian Francesco Giudice,
\booktitleA Zeptospace Odyssey: A
Journey into the Physics of the LHC.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 2010, ii + 276 pages. \$45.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116
Ta-Pei Cheng and
Bernard J. Feldman and
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and
Cathryn Carson and
Elisha Cohn Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--123
Bernard J. Feldman Book Review: Weston M. Stacey,
\booktitleThe Quest for a Fusion Energy
Reactor. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2010, 208 pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} 116--117
Jacob Darwin Hamblin Book Review: Bruce J. Hunt,
\booktitlePursuing Power and Light:
Technology and Physics from James Watt
to Albert Einstein. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2010, 182
pages. \$20.00 (paper)} . . . . . . . . 117--118
Cathryn Carson Book Review: Suman Seth,
\booktitleCrafting the Quantum: Arnold
Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory,
1890--1926. Cambridge, Mass. and London:
The MIT Press, 2010, xix + 378 pages.
\$32.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
Elisha Cohn Book Review: Barri J. Gold,
\booktitleThermoPoetics: Energy in
Victorian Literature and Science,
Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2010, x
+ 343 pages. \$30.00 (cloth)} . . . . . 120--123
Anonymous Global Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Scientific Research: Reason
and Emotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
John G. Jenkin Atomic Energy is ``Moonshine'': What did
Rutherford Really Mean? . . . . . . . . 128--145
Enzo F. Haussecker and
Alexander W. Chao The Influence of Accelerator Science on
Physics Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--160
B. Cameron Reed Liquid Thermal Diffusion during the
Manhattan Project . . . . . . . . . . . 161--188
Ursula Pavlish Gerson Goldhaber: a Life in Science . . 189--214
Bjòrn Pedersen Physical Science in Oslo . . . . . . . . 215--238
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [John Heilbron,
\booktitleGalileo; Galileo, \booktitlede
Revolutionibus; Galileo,
\booktitleDialogue Concerning the Two
Chief World Systems] . . . . . . . . . . 239--243
Daniel Kleppner Book Review: David Goodstein,
\booktitleFact and Fraud in Science:
Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of
Science. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2010, xiv + 168 pages. \$22.95
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--247
Daniel Kleppner and
Robert C. Hilborn and
David C. Cassidy Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--255
Robert C. Hilborn Book Review: Richard A. Muller,
\booktitlePhysics and Technology for
Future Presidents: An Introduction to
the Essential Physics Every World Leader
Needs to Know. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2010, xi + 517 pages.
\$49.50 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
David C. Cassidy Book Review: Cathryn Carson,
\booktitleHeisenberg in the Atomic Age:
Science and the Public Sphere.
Washington, DC: German Historical
Institute and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2010, xvi + 541 pages.
\$80.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--255
Anonymous The Helping Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--256
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Is It the Public? Is It the Scientists? 257--259
Benjamin Bederson and
H. Henry Stroke History of the New York University
Physics Department . . . . . . . . . . . 260--328
Stefania Jha Wigner's ``Polanyian'' Epistemology and
the Measurement Problem: The
Wigner--Polanyi Dialog on Tacit
Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--358
G. S. Paraoanu Perspectives on Current Issues: Quantum
Computing: Theoretical versus
Practical Possibility . . . . . . . . . 359--372
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Galileo's \booktitleTwo
Chief World Systems and \booktitleTwo
New Sciences; Harald Fritzsch,
\booktitleYou Are Wrong, Mr Einstein!] 373--375
Peter Pesic Book Review: Nick Huggett,
\booktitleEverywhere and Everywhen:
Adventures in Physics and Philosophy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010,
217 pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . 376--378
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--382
Richard Noer Book Review: Jennifer Coopersmith,
\booktitleEnergy, the Subtle Concept:
The Discovery of Feynman's Blocks from
Leibniz to Einstein. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010, xiv + 400 pages.
\$55.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Ian Sample,
\booktitleMassive: The Missing Particle
that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in
Science. New York: Basic Books, 2010, xi
+ 260 pages. \$25.95 (cloth)} . . . . . 380--382
Anonymous Who is learned? . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer America in Decline . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Christopher M. Graney Contra Galileo: Riccioli's
``Coriolis-Force'' Argument on the
Earth's Diurnal Rotation . . . . . . . . 387--400
Stephan Schwarz Science, Technology, and the Niels Bohr
Institute in Occupied Denmark . . . . . 401--432
David K. C. Cooper Edward Gerjuoy: From Physics to Law and
Back Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--455
Andrzej Januszajtis A Walk Around Gda\'nsk for Physicists 456--480
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [\booktitleInformation and
the Nature of Reality: From Physics to
Metaphysics (edited by Paul Davies and
Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cambridge
University Press, 2010, xvi + 382 pages,
\$30)}] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--483
Guy Emery Book Review: David E. Fisher,
\booktitleMuch Ado About (Practically)
Nothing: The History of the Noble Gases.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010,
xi + 264 pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . 484--486
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--497
Sidney Borowitz Book Review: Paul Josephson,
\booktitleLenin's Laureate: Zhores
Alferov's Life in Communist Science.
Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2010,
307 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . 486--493
Michael W. Friedlander Book Review: John L. Heilbron,
\booktitleGalileo. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2010, xiv + 508 pages,
\$34.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495
Gino Segr\`e Book Review: Alberto Martinez,
\booktitleScience Secrets: The Truth
about Darwin's Finches, Einstein's Wife,
and Other Myths. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2011, xviii + 324
pages. \$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 495--497
Piet Hein We have to have it . . . . . . . . . . . 498--498
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Manipulated Data Does Not
Escape Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
T. James M. Boyd George Hartley Bryan, Ludwig Boltzmann,
and the Stability of Flight . . . . . . 4--32
Francesco Guerra and
Matteo Leone and
Nadia Robotti The Discovery of Artificial
Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--58
Ruth Lewin Sime The Politics of Forgetting: Otto Hahn
and the German Nuclear-Fission Project
in World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--94
Gian Francesco Giudice Big Science and the Large Hadron
Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--112
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. H. Stuewer Book Notes [Lawrence Krauss,
\booktitleQuantum Man: Richard Feynman's
Life in Science (W. W. Norton, 2011,
xvii + 350, \$24.95)}] . . . . . . . . . 113--115
John L. Roeder Book Review: David A. Weintraub,
\booktitleHow Old Is the Universe?
Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2011, 370 pages. \$29.95 (cloth)} . . . 116--117
John L. Roeder and
Naomi Pasachoff and
Allan Franklin Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--122
Naomi Pasachoff Book Review: Ray Jayawardhana,
\booktitleStrange New Worlds: The Search
for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our
Solar System. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2011, 255 pages.
\$24.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Allan Franklin Book Review: Toby E. Huff,
\booktitleIntellectual Curiosity and the
Scientific Revolution: A Global
Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2011, xiii + 354
pages. \$27.99 (paper)} . . . . . . . . 120--122
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Editorial: Understanding of Quantum
Mechanics Eludes Physicists for
Eighty-Six Years . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Jeroen van Dongen Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images:
Albert and Carl Einstein, Leiden and
Berlin, Relativity and Revolution . . . 126--177
Rodolfo Rosa The Merli--Missiroli--Pozzi Two-Slit
Electron-Interference Experiment . . . . 178--195
Norton M. Hintz My Life in Nuclear Physics, Photography,
and Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--238
Mohammad Talebian and
Ehsan Talebian Alenush Terian: The Iranian Solar
Mother: In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Roald Hoffmann and Iain Boyd
Whyte, eds. \booktitleBeyond the Finite:
The Sublime in Art and Science (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2011, xvii +
173 pages, \$24.95)}] . . . . . . . . . 242--244
Ruth Lewin Sime Book Review: Marjorie C. Malley,
\booktitleRadioactivity: A History of a
Mysterious Science. Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2011, xxi + 267
pages. \$21.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 245--246
Ruth Lewin Sime and
Hans Christian von Baeyer and
David C. Cassidy and
Robert P. Crease and
Gregory A. Good Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--254
Hans Christian von Baeyer Book Review: Jost Lemmerich,
\booktitleScience and Conscience: The
Life of James Franck. Translated by Ann
M. Hentschel. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2011, xviii + 369
pages. \$65.00 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 246--248
David C. Cassidy Book Review: Gino Segr\`e,
\booktitleOrdinary Geniuses: Max
Delbrück, George Gamow, and the Origins
of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology,
Viking Adult, New York, 2011, xxi + 330
pages, ISBN-13 978-0-670-02276-2 . . . . 248--250
Robert P. Crease Book Review: Mark A. Peterson,
\booktitleGalileo's Muse: Renaissance
Mathematics and the Arts. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2011, vi + 336
pages. \$28.95 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 250--252
Gregory A. Good Book Review: Margaret J. Osler,
\booktitleReconfiguring the World:
Nature, God, and Human Understanding
from the Middle Ages to Early Modern
Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2010, 184 pages.
\$25.00 (paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--254
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Knowledge and Appreciation Based on
Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--257
Kristel Wautier and
Alexander Jonckheere and
Danny Segers The Life and Work of Joseph Plateau:
Father of Film and Discoverer of Surface
Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--278
Paul Halpern Quantum Humor: The Playful Side of
Physics at Bohr's Institute for
Theoretical Physics . . . . . . . . . . 279--299
Victor S. Alpher Ralph A. Alpher, Robert C. Herman, and
the Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--334
Ana Simões and
Maria Paula Diogo and
Ana Carneiro Physical Sciences in Lisbon . . . . . . 335--367
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--370
William Evenson Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics
and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the
Universe and the Modern World . . . . . 371--373
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--387
Peter Pesic The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field
Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly
Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--375
Benjamin Bederson Double Exile: Migrations of
Jewish--Hungarian Professionals Through
Germany to the United States, 1919--1945 376--384
Naomi Pasachoff A Short History of Physics in the
American Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--387
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Anti-science: It Comes From the Top . . 389--391
Helge Kragh Zöllner's Universe . . . . . . . . . . . 392--420
Karl Hufbauer From Student of Physics to Historian of
Science: T. S. Kuhn's Education and
Early Career, 1940--1958 . . . . . . . . 421--470
Hans Christofer Bòrresen Flawed Nuclear Physics and Atomic
Intelligence in the Campaign to deny
Norwegian Heavy Water to Germany,
1942--1944 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--497
Danian Hu Martin J. Klein: From Physicist to
Historian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--507
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--511
Amit Hagar On Physics and Philosophy . . . . . . . 512--514
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--520
Allan Franklin Michael Polanyi and His Generation . . . 514--517
Thomas R. Greenlee Cosmic Numbers: The Numbers That Define
Our Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--518
Arlo U. Landolt How We See the Sky: a Naked-Eye Tour of
Day and Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--519
Bernard J. Feldman Neutrino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--520
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Don't Forget the Liberal Arts . . . . . 1--2
Ruth Lewin Sime Marietta Blau: Pioneer of Photographic
Nuclear Emulsions and Particle Physics 3--32
Frank Oppenheimer and
Charles Weiner A Physicist for All Seasons: Part I . . 33--91
Giorgio Dragoni and
Ivana Stojanovic Physical Science in Bologna . . . . . . 92--115
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes [Stuart Firestein,
\booktitleIgnorance: How it Drives
Science, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012, viii + 195 pages, ISBN
0-19-982807-5] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Philip Phillips Book Review: Philip W. Anderson,
\booktitleMore and Different Notes from
a Thoughtful Curmudgeon. Singapore:
World Scientific, 2011, ix + 412 pages.
\$38.00 (paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Philip Phillips and
Gino Segr\`e and
Mason Tattersall and
Barbara Ryden Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--126
Gino Segr\`e Book Review: Simone Turchetti,
\booktitleThe Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold
War Defection and Nuclear Physics.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2012, 292 pages. \$45.00 (cloth)} . . . 121--123
Mason Tattersall Book Review: József Illy, \booktitleThe
Practical Einstein: Experiments,
Patents, Inventions. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, xi
+ 202 pages. \$60.00 (cloth)} . . . . . 123--125
Barbara Ryden Book Review: Michael Hoskin,
\booktitleThe Construction of the
Heavens: William Herschel's Cosmology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012, viii + 205 pages. \$105.00
(cloth)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Enlightenment is Dimming in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
William Sheehan From the Transits of Venus to the Birth
of Experimental Psychology . . . . . . . 130--159
Francesco Guerra and
Nadia Robotti The Disappearance and Death of Ettore
Majorana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--177
Frank Oppenheimer and
Charles Weiner A Physicist for All Seasons: Part II . . 178--240
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--251
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Seventeen Particles and One Molecule . . 253--255
Peter Pesic Helmholtz, Riemann, and the Sirens:
Sound, Color, and the ``Problem of
Space'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--294
Massimiliano Badino and
Bretislav Friedrich Much Polyphony but Little Harmony: Otto
Sackur's Groping for a Quantum Theory of
Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--319
Harvey R. Brown The Theory of the Rise of Sap in Trees:
Some Historical and Conceptual Remarks 320--358
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--370
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer We Shall Be Like the Trees . . . . . . . 371--372
Peter Kosso Void Points, Rosettes, and a Brief
History of Planetary Astronomy . . . . . 373--390
Robert P. Crease and
Vladimir Shiltsev Pomor Polymath: The Upbringing of
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov,
1711--1730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--414
Simón Reif-Acherman Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Nobel
Prize in Physics for 1913: The Highest
Honor for the Lowest Temperatures . . . 415--450
Lucy Veys Joseph Rotblat: Moral Dilemmas and the
Manhattan Project . . . . . . . . . . . 451--469
Antoni Roca-Rosell and
Xavier Roqué Physical Science in Barcelona . . . . . 470--498
John S. Rigden and
Roger H. Stuewer Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--501
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--511
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Cássio Leite Vieira and
Antonio Augusto Passos Videira Carried by History: Cesar Lattes,
Nuclear Emulsions, and the Discovery of
the Pi-meson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--36
Catherine Westfall Engineering the Big Chill: The Story of
JLab's Central Helium Liquefier . . . . 37--68
Israel Belfer Informing Physics: Jacob Bekenstein and
the Informational Turn in Theoretical
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--97
Thomas C. O'Connor Daedalus in Dublin: A Physicist's
Labyrinth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--128
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--141
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic The Feynman Lectures, Fifty Years On . . 143--145
Somaditya Banerjee C. V. Raman and Colonial Physics:
Acoustics and the Quantum . . . . . . . 146--178
Silvan S. Schweber Writing the Biography of Hans Bethe:
Contextual History and Paul Forman . . . 179--217
John H. Marburger III The Superconducting Supercollider and US
Science Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--249
Natalia Kupershtokh and
Alexander Apolonskiy Physics in Novosibirsk and Akademgorodok 250--276
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--289
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic Reading Physics Closely . . . . . . . . 291--292
Clayton A. Gearhart The Franck--Hertz Experiments,
1911--1914 Experimentalists in Search of
a Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--343
Dale Jacquette Newton's Metaphysics of Space as God's
Emanative Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--370
John R. Nimmo and
Paula M. Hermann and
M. B. Kirkham and
Edward R. Landa Pollen Dispersal by Catapult:
Experiments of Lyman J. Briggs on the
Flower of Mountain Laurel . . . . . . . 371--389
Vladimir Shiltsev and
Marat Eseev Scientific Arkhangelsk and Pomorie: A
Walk Through Centuries and Thousands of
Miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--405
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--413
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic Physics and Music . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416
Kevin Lambert Hearing Pygmalion's Kiss: A Scientific
Object at the Paris Opéra . . . . . . . . 417--439
Stefano Salvia ``Galileo's Machine'': Late Notes on
Free Fall, Projectile Motion, and the
Force of Percussion (ca. 1638--1639) . . 440--460
B. Cameron Reed The Feed Materials Program of the
Manhattan Project: A Foundational
Component of the Nuclear Weapons Complex 461--479
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--490
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic Editorial: ``But Is It Science?'' . . . 1--2
Joseph D. Martin What's in a Name Change? . . . . . . . . 3--32
David C. Cassidy Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich
Freiherr von Weizsäcker: A Fifty-Year
Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--54
Herbert Hunziker The Physical Tourist: Albert Einstein's
Magic Mountain: An Aarau Education . . . 55--69
Gino Segr\`e Book Review: Frank Close:
\booktitleHalf-Life: The Divided Life of
Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy. New
York: Basic Books, 2015, xix + 366
pages. \$29.99 (cloth)} . . . . . . . . 70--73
Philip Beeley Book Review: Sarah Dry, \booktitleThe
Newton Papers: The Strange and True
Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014,
xi + 238 pages. \$29.95} . . . . . . . . 74--79
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic Whose History Is It? . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Deepanwita Dasgupta Stars, Peripheral Scientists, and
Equations: The Case of M. N. Saha . . . 83--106
Helge Kragh Pascual Jordan, Varying Gravity, and the
Expanding Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--134
John J. Rush US Neutron Facility Development in the
Last Half-Century: A Cautionary Tale . . 135--155
Peter Pesic Book Review: Steven Weinberg,
\booktitleTo Explain the World: The
Discovery of Modern Science.
HarperCollins, 2015, xiv + 416 pages,
\$28.99} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--160
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--168
Natalia Kupershtokh and
Alexander Apolonskiy Erratum to: Physics in Novosibirsk and
Akademgorodok . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
Robert P. Crease and
Peter Pesic Explorers and Settlers . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Adam Fix A Science Superior to Music: Joseph
Sauveur and the Estrangement between
Music and Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . 173--197
Simón Reif-Acherman Between Thermodynamics and Thermometry:
The Life and Scientific Achievements of
Hugh Longbourne Callendar . . . . . . . 198--235
Leyla Joaquim and
Olival Freire, Jr. and
Charbel N. El-Hani Quantum Explorers: Bohr, Jordan, and
Delbrück Venturing into Biology . . . . . 236--250
Catherine Westfall Adventure in Ven: Visiting Tycho's
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--258
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--263
Zaiqing Fang Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
Danian Hu American Influence on Chinese Physics
Study in the Early Twentieth Century . . 268--297
Sam M. Austin The Michigan State University Cyclotron
Laboratory: Its Early Years . . . . . . 298--333
T. G. Berlincourt Superconducting Niobium--Titanium:
Enabler for Affordable MRI and the
Search for the Higgs Boson . . . . . . . 334--353
John Lisle Einstein Up in Smoke . . . . . . . . . . 354--360
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
Anonymous Do Physics Conferences Still Matter? . . 1--2
Allan Franklin Physics Textbooks Don't Always Tell the
Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--57
S. S. Schweber The Shelter Island Conferences
Revisited: ``Fundamental'' Physics in
the Decade 1975--1985 . . . . . . . . . 58--147
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--154
Anonymous Physics Global and Local . . . . . . . . 155--156
Somaditya Banerjee Transnational Quantum: Quantum Physics
in India through the Lens of
Satyendranath Bose . . . . . . . . . . . 157--181
Michael H. Goldhaber Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, 1911--1998:
Nuclear Physicist Against the Odds . . . 182--208
John M. LoSecco The History of ``Anomalous'' Atmospheric
Neutrino Events: A First Person Account 209--241
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--246
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
John D. Norton How Einstein Did Not Discover . . . . . 249--282
Jed Z. Buchwald Politics, Morality, Innovation, and
Misrepresentation in Physical Science
and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--300
Catherine Westfall From Desire to Data: How JLab's
Experimental Program Evolved . . . . . . 301--350
Helge Kragh Book Review: Finn Aaserud and John
Heilbron, \booktitleLove, Literature,
and the Quantum Atom: Bohr's 1913
Trilogy Revisited. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013, x + 284 pages,
\$61 (hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . . 351--354
Anonymous Megascience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Vitaly S. Pronskikh E-36: The First Proto-Megascience
Experiment at NAL . . . . . . . . . . . 357--378
Luís C. B. Crispino and
Marcelo C. de Lima Amazonia Introduced to General
Relativity: The May 29, 1919, Solar
Eclipse from a North-Brazilian Point of
View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--403
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic Immigrant Physics . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Michael Wiescher Arthur E. Haas, His Life and Cosmologies 3--59
M. Ortega-Rodríguez and
H. Solís-Sánchez and
E. Boza-Oviedo and
K. Chaves-Cruz and
M. Guevara-Bertsch and
M. Quirós-Rojas and
S. Vargas-Hernández and
A. Venegas-Li The Early Scientific Contributions of J.
Robert Oppenheimer: Why Did the
Scientific Community Miss the Black Hole
Opportunity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--75
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--87
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic Gonzo History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Catherine Westfall Between the Lines: A First-Person
Account of Berkeley's Loss of Fermilab 91--104
Stefano Salvia From Archimedean Hydrostatics to
Post-Aristotelian Mechanics: Galileo's
Early Manuscripts \booktitleDe motu
antiquiora (ca. 1590) . . . . . . . . . 105--150
Michael Wiescher The Four Lives of a Nuclear Accelerator 151--179
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic Where Is the Physics Frontier? . . . . . 181--182
Gary J. Weisel The Plasma Archipelago: Plasma Physics
in the 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--226
Erich Willen Building Magnets at Brookhaven National
Laboratory: A Condensed Account . . . . 227--290
Robert P. Crease Francis Bacon's London . . . . . . . . . 291--306
James R. Hofmann Essay Review: Friedrich Steinle,
\booktitleExploratory Experiments:
Amp\`ere, Faraday, and the Origins of
Electrodynamics, translated by Alex
Levine, Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2016 . . . . . . . . . 307--318
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Allan David Franklin Is Seeing Believing?: Observation in
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--423
Thomas Heinze and
Olof Hallonsten and
Steffi Heinecke Turning the Ship: The Transformation of
DESY, 1993--2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--451
Friedrich Steinle Reply to James R. Hofmann . . . . . . . 452--457
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Roger H. Stuewer In memoriam: John S. Rigden . . . . . . 4--7
Jean-François Gauvin Playing with Quantum Toys: Julian
Schwinger's Measurement Algebra and the
Material Culture of Quantum Mechanics
Pedagogy at Harvard in the 1960s . . . . 8--42
Catherine Westfall From Desire to Data: How JLab's
Experimental Program Evolved. Part 2:
The Painstaking Transition to Concrete
Plans, Mid-1980s to 1990 . . . . . . . . 43--123
Michael Wiescher The History and Impact of the CNO Cycles
in Nuclear Astrophysics . . . . . . . . 124--158
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--162
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic When Science and Politics Collide . . . 163--164
Alan Chalmers How Pressure Became a Scalar, Not a
Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--179
Peter D. Bond The Fiftieth Anniversary of Brookhaven
National Laboratory: A Turbulent Time 180--207
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--217
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic On ''Minor'' Scientists . . . . . . . . 219--220
Helge Kragh Ludvig Lorenz and His Non--Maxwellian
Electrical Theory of Light . . . . . . . 221--253
Paul Halpern Celebrity Physicist: How the Press
Sensationalized Einstein's Search for a
Unified Field Theory . . . . . . . . . . 254--271
Robert P. Crease and
Vladimir Shiltsev Fueling Peter's Mill: Mikhail
Lomonosov's Educational Training in
Russia and Germany, 1731--1741 . . . . . 272--304
Sarah Robey Book Reviews: David C. Cassidy,
\booktitleFarm Hall and the German
Atomic Project of World War II: A
Dramatic History, Cham: Springer, 2017,
xiv + 125 pages. \$29.99 (hardcover)} 305--307
Cyrus C. M. Mody Book Reviews: Lillian Hoddeson and Peter
Garrett, \booktitleThe Man Who Saw
Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 2018, 400 pages, \$29.95
(hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
Deepanwita Dasgupta Book Reviews: Eric Scerri, \booktitleA
Tale of Seven Scientists and a New
Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2016, 264 pages,
\$29.95 (hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . 310--313
Robert Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Peter Pesic Physics Is Its History . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh and
Simon Mitton Interrogating the Legend of Einstein's
''Biggest Blunder'' . . . . . . . . . . 318--341
Andrew Zhang and
Andrew Zangwill Four Facts Everyone Ought to Know about
Science: The Two-Culture Concerns of
Philip W. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . 342--369
Anonymous Book Review: Edward J. Gillin,
\booktitleThe Victorian Palace of
Science: Scientific Knowledge and the
Building of the Houses of Parliament,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2017, 325 pages, 38 b&w ills., \$99.99
(hardback)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--384
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley What We Talk about When We Talk about
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
A. M. Kuliev and
V. I. Kukharenko and
K. N. Grinberg and
V. V. Terskikh and
A. D. Tamarkina and
E. A. Bogomazov and
P. S. Redkin and
S. S. Vasileysky Investigation of a cell strain with
trisomy 14 from a spontaneously aborted
human fetus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Mary Jo Nye Shifting Trends in Modern Physics, Nobel
Recognition, and the Histories That We
Write . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
Andrew T. L. Chen and
Arthur Falek and
William Lester Chromosome aberrations in full-term low
birth weight neonates . . . . . . . . . 13--16
F. Pera and
P. Scholz Polyploidization in vitro: Formation of
a predominantly triploid cell population
in an originally diploid tissue culture
of \bionameMicrotus agrestis . . . . . . 17--26
Mahdi Khelfaoui and
Yves Gingras \booktitlePhysical Review: From the
Periphery to the Center of Physics . . . 23--42
B. N. Mukherjee and
S. K. Das and
G. Kellermann Study of some serum group systems in the
Mahishyas and the Muslims in 24-Parganas
district, West Bengal . . . . . . . . . 27--32
Dani\`ele Vandeville and
J. P. Martin and
C. Ropartz $ \alpha_{1-} $ Polymorphism of a Bantu
population: Description of a mew allele
PiL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
Jörg Schmidtke and
Wolfgang Engel On the problem of regional gene
duplication in diploid fish of the
orders \bionameOstariophysi and
\bionameIsospondyli . . . . . . . . . . 39--45
Stefano Salvia Embattled Cooperation(s): Peaceful
Atoms, Pacifist Physicists, and
Partisans of Peace in the Early Cold War
(1947--1957) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62
J. P. Fryns and
E. Eggermont and
H. Verresen and
H. van den Berghe Partial trisomy 13: Karyotype
46,XY,-6,+t(13q,6q) . . . . . . . . . . 47--54
Jens Sehested A simple method for R banding of human
chromosomes, showing a pH-dependent
connection between R and G bands . . . . 55--58
Swadesh Seth and
Helmut Berndt Genetic polymorphism of the human
complement component C'3 among North
Germans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
R. Priscu and
I. Moraru and
A. Albu and
S. Sichitiu Les taux des amino-acides libres dans le
liquide cérébro-spinal chez les
nourrissons trisomiques 21 . . . . . . . 63--68
Jeremy Butterfield Book Review: Sabine Hossenfelder,
\booktitleLost in Math: How Beauty Leads
Physics Astray, Basic Books, 2018, 304
pages, \$17.99 (hardcover)} . . . . . . 63--86
S. S. Papiha and
H. J. Wastell Transferrin variants in the Indian
subcontinent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--73
G. Mauff and
B. G. Potrafki and
H. Freis and
G. Pulverer Vergleichende Untersuchungen zum
Polymorphismus des Posttransferrins (Pt)
und der dritten Komponente des
Humankomplements (C3). (German)
[Comparative Studies on the Polymorphism
of the Posttransferrin (Pt) and the
Third Component of Human Complexity
(C3)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80
J. Atkin and
A. T. Rundle Serum $ \beta_2$-glycoprotein 1
phenotype frequencies in an English
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84
Ranajit Chakraborty A note on Nei's measure of gene
diversity in a substructured population 85--88
Roberto Lalli Book Review: Dominique Lambert,
\booktitleThe Atom of the Universe: The
Life and Work of Georges Lema\^\itre,
Krakow: Copernicus Center Press, 2015,
464 + xix pages, EUR 59.90 (hardcover) 87--90
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Decolonizing Physics: Learning from the
Periphery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Deepanwita Dasgupta Making Research More Diverse: How
Peripheral Members Join a Scientific
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107
Catherine Westfall From Desire to Data: How JLab's
Experimental Program Evolved. Part 3:
From Experimental Plans to Concrete
Reality, JLab Gears Up for Research,
mid-1990 through 1997 . . . . . . . . . 108--159
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Biography and the History of Physics . . 161--162
Wolfgang L. Reiter Karl Przibram: Radioactivity, Crystals,
and Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--193
Penha Maria Cardozo Dias and
Mariana Faria Brito Francisquini and
Carlos Eduardo Aguiar and
Marta Feijó Barroso What the Middle-Aged Galileo Told the
Elderly Galileo: Galileo's Search for
the Laws of Fall . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--221
Danian Hu From Liverpool to Beijing and Chongqing:
William Band's Adventure in Wartime
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--251
Danian Hu Correction to: From Liverpool to Beijing
and Chongqing: William Band's Adventure
in Wartime China . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--252
Gerald Holton Book Review: Allen Esterson and David C.
Cassidy, \booktitleEinstein;s Wife: The
Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Mari\'c,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019, 336
pages, \$29.99 (hardcover)} . . . . . . 253--254
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Physics and (Natural) Philosophy . . . . 255--256
Helge Kragh Varying Constants of Nature: Fragments
of a History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--273
József Illy Einstein's Gyros . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--295
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Recentering the History of Physics . . . 1--2
Jeroen van Dongen In Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--25
Christian P. Ruhl ``It's better to forget physics'': The
Idea of the Tactical Nuclear Weapon in
the Early Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . 26--51
József Illy Correction to: Einstein's Gyros . . . . 52--52
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Don't Be Like Ike . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Elske de Waal and
Sjang L. ten Hagen The Concept of Fact in German Physics
around 1900: A Comparison between Mach
and Einstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--80
Stefano Salvia The Battle of the Astronomers: Johann
Adam Schall von Bell and Ferdinand
Verbiest at the Court of the Celestial
Emperors (1660--1670) . . . . . . . . . 81--109
Liyuan Liu When Missionary Astronomy Encountered
Chinese Astrology: Johann Adam Schall
von Bell and Chinese Calendar Reform in
the Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . 110--126
Joseph D. Martin Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Francesco Guerra and
Matteo Leone and
Nadia Robotti Enrico Fermi's Discovery of
Neutron-Induced Artificial
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from ``Divine Providence'' . . . . . . . 129--161
Dorel Bucurescu A Reconsideration of Stefania
Maracineanu's Measurements of
Polonium-210's Half-Life: Understanding
Her Claim to the Discovery of Artificial
Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--181
Robert W. Smith Book Review: Joshua Nall, \booktitleNews
from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of
a New Astronomy, 1860--1910, Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019,
287 pages, \$50 (hardcover)} . . . . . . 182--184
Christian Forstner Book Review: Olival Freire Junior,
\booktitleDavid Bohm: A Life Dedicated
to Understanding of the Quantum World,
Cham: Springer, 2019, xi + 250 pp.,
\$84.99 (hardcover)} . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Breno Arsioli Moura The Problem of Reflection in
Eighteenth-Century Projectile Theories
of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--214
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh and
Michael O'Keeffe Redshifts versus Paradigm Shifts:
Against Renaming Hubble's Law . . . . . 215--225
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. Professors of Natural Philosophy in the
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 226--238
Joshua Nall Book Review Daniel Kennefick,
\booktitleNo Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919
Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein s Theory
of Relativity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2019, 416 pages,
\$29.95 (hardcover).} . . . . . . . . . 239--242
Jonathan Lyonhart Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Writing Things Up: Endings and
Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Kevin Orrman-Rossiter Observation and Annihilation: The
Discovery of the Antiproton . . . . . . 3--24
Robert Fleck Fundamental Themes in Physics from the
History of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--48
Stephan Schwarz The Occupation of Niels Bohr's
Institute: December 6, 1943--February 3,
1944 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--82
Joseph D. Martin Reporting Science . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Victória Flório and
Olival Freire Júnior The Past Looks Like an Onion: The
Centennial ''Great Debate'' Through
Journalists' Testimonies . . . . . . . . 85--103
Salvatore Esposito From England to Italy: The Intriguing
Story of Poli's Engine for the King of
Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--138
Robert Fleck The Scientific Revolution in Art . . . . 139--169
Núria Muñoz-Garganté Book Review: Andrew Zangwill,
\booktitleA Mind Over Matter: Philip
Anderson and the Physics of the Very
Many, Oxford University Press, 2021, 412
Pages, \$25.00 (Hardcover)} . . . . . . 170--175
Massimiliano Badino Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--178
Robert P. Crease and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley E Pluribus \ldots? . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Grigoris Panoutsopoulos and
Theodore Arabatzis CERN's Balancing Act Between Unity and
Disunity: The ''Sister Experiments'' UA1
and UA2 and CERN's First Nobel Prize . . 181--201
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. American Nineteenth-Century
Manufacturers and Importers of
Philosophical Apparatus . . . . . . . . 202--230
Deepanwita Dasgupta Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Anonymous Amateurs in the History of Physics . . . 1--2
Roberto Mantovani Making and Collecting Instruments in
Fair Verona: The Case of the Italian
Amateur Scientist Gaetano Spandri
(1796--1859) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--34
Juan A. Queijo Olano and
Antonio A. P. Videira Walter Scott Hill and Uruguayan Physics 35--71
Stephan Schwarz Drama around a Wartime Heisenberg Letter 72--92
Daniella McCahey Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Robert L. Naylor and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Physics and Philosophy --- Uneasy
Bedfellows? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Helge Kragh Brecht, Galileo, and Mòller: a View from
Copenhagen, 1938--1939 . . . . . . . . . 99--124
Flavio Del Santo and
Emanuel Schwarzhans ``Philosophysics'' at the University of
Vienna: The (Pre-)History of Foundations
of Quantum Physics in the Viennese
Cultural Context . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--153
Miriam Focaccia Not Just Boys at Via Panisperna: Women
at the Royal Physics Institute in Rome 154--177
Joseph D. Martin and
Robert L. Naylor and
Richard Staley Small Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
Christian Forstner Laboratory Life Instead of Nuclear
Weapons: a New Perspective on the German
Uranium Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--207
Nadya D. Kelly (Mis)Translating Entropy?: Camille
Flammarion and the Multiple Theologies
of the Death of the Universe . . . . . . 208--222
Robert L. Naylor and
Joseph D. Martin and
Richard Staley Vital Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Roberto Mantovani Between Old and New Interpretations of
Life: Animal Electricity at the First
Congress of Italian Scientists . . . . . 3--40
Ivan Sterligov Before and After the Fall: Geography of
Soviet and Post-Soviet Physics Surveyed
via Leading Journals . . . . . . . . . . 41--75
Michael Eckert Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Stephan Schwarz Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82
Joseph D. Martin and
Robert L. Naylor and
Richard Staley Secret Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gerardo Ienna and
Simone Turchetti JASON in Europe: Contestation and the
Physicists' Dilemma about the Vietnam
War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Machiel Kleemans Dreams of Declassification: The Early
Cold War Quest for Nuclear Knowledge in
The Netherlands and Norway . . . . . . . ??
Weixing Niu and
Yejing Ge and
Haohao Zhu Calculating and Mapping the Disposition
of Future Heavens: Ferdinand Verbiest's
Weather Forecasting and Its Termination
During the Qing Court (1669--1680) . . . ??
Coreen McGuire and
Joseph D. Martin Film Review: \booktitleRevenge of the
Nerds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Massimiliano Badino The odd couple: Boltzmann, Planck and
the application of statistics to physics
(1900--1913) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--101