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Volume 12, Number 1, January, 1940
Volume 12, Number 2, April, 1940
Volume 12, Number 3, July, 1940
Volume 12, Number 4, October, 1940
Volume 13, Number 1, January, 1941
Volume 13, Number 2, April, 1941
Volume 13, Number 3, July, 1941
Volume 13, Number 4, October, 1941
Volume 14, Number 1, January, 1942
Volume 14, Number 2--3, April, 1942
Volume 14, Number 4, October, 1942
Volume 15, Number 1, January, 1943
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 1943
Volume 15, Number 3, July, 1943
Volume 15, Number 4, October, 1943
Volume 16, Number 1, January, 1944
Volume 16, Number 2, April, 1944
Volume 16, Number 3--4, July, 1944
Volume 17, Number 1, January, 1945
Volume 17, Number 2--3, April, 1945
Volume 17, Number 4, October, 1945
Volume 18, Number 1, January, 1946
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 1946
Volume 18, Number 3, July, 1946
Volume 18, Number 4, October, 1946
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1947
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 1947
Volume 19, Number 3, July, 1947
Volume 19, Number 4, October, 1947
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 1948
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 1948
Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1948
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 1948
Volume 21, Number 1, January, 1949
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 1949
Volume 21, Number 3, July, 1949
Volume 21, Number 4, October, 1949
Volume 22, Number 3, July, 1950


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 12, Number 1, January, 1940

                Louis A. Turner   Nuclear Fission  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
            J. J. Livingood and   
                  G. T. Seaborg   A Table of Induced Radioactivities . . . 30--46
                Harvey Fletcher   Auditory Patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . 47--65
                      F. Zwicky   Types of Novae . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--85

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 12, Number 2, April, 1940

          M. J. Druyvesteyn and   
                  F. M. Penning   The Mechanism of Electrical Discharges
                                  in Gases of Low Pressure . . . . . . . . 87--174

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 12, Number 3, July, 1940

              David M. Dennison   The Infra-Red Spectra of Polyatomic
                                  Molecules. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 175--214
         Millard F. Manning and   
                Maurice E. Bell   Electrical Conduction and Related
                                  Phenomena in Solid Dielectrics . . . . . 215--256
                 Karl K. Darrow   Helium the Superfluid  . . . . . . . . . 257--266

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 12, Number 4, October, 1940

             John R. Loofbourow   Borderland Problems in Biology and
                                  Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--358


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 13, Number 1, January, 1941

                    J. C. Boyce   Spectroscopy in the Vacuum Ultraviolet   1--57
             Maurice M. Shapiro   Tracks of Nuclear Particles in
                                  Photographic Emulsions . . . . . . . . . 58--71
          M. J. Druyvesteyn and   
                  F. M. Penning   Errata: Mechanism of Electrical
                                  Discharges in Gases of Low Pressure  . . 72--73

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 13, Number 2, April, 1941

                  H. Sponer and   
                      E. Teller   Electronic Spectra of Polyatomic
                                  Molecules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--170

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 13, Number 3, July, 1941

                  Philipp Frank   Why Do Scientists and Philosophers So
                                  Often Disagree about the Merits of a New
                                  Theory?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
                    H. Margenau   Metaphysical Elements in Physics . . . . 176--189
                 W. F. G. Swann   The Relation of Theory to Experiment in
                                  Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--196
                 W. F. G. Swann   Relativity, the Fitzgerald--Lorentz
                                  Contraction, and Quantum Theory  . . . . 197--202
                       W. Pauli   Relativistic Field Theories of
                                  Elementary Particles . . . . . . . . . . 203--232

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 13, Number 4, October, 1941

               Raymond T. Birge   A New Table of Values of the General
                                  Physical Constants (as of August, 1941)  233--239
                Bruno Rossi and   
                Kenneth Greisen   Cosmic-Ray Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 240--309
            R. W. Ditchburn and   
                  J. C. Gilmour   The Vapor Pressures of Monatomic Vapors  310--327


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 14, Number 1, January, 1942

                    S. A. Korff   The Operation of Proportional Counters   1--11
                Walter Kauzmann   Dielectric Relaxation as a Chemical Rate
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--44
               F. R. Hirsh, Jr.   A Summary of X-Ray Satellites  . . . . . 45--54

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 14, Number 2--3, April, 1942

             Robert S. Mulliken   Introduction to the Conference . . . . . 57--58
             William F. Meggers   The Primary Standard of Wave-Length  . . 59--63
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
              W. Ewart Williams   Construction and Use of Reflection
                                  Echelons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
            H. S. Pomerance and   
                  H. G. Beutler   Identification of Orders and Ghosts in
                                  Grating Spectra by Diffracting Slits . . 66--67
            Karl Wilh. Meissner   Application of Atomic Beams in
                                  Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--78
              Russell A. Fisher   Atomic Beam Light Sources Applied to the
                                  Structure of the Magnesium I Resonance
                                  Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81
                 J. E. Mack and   
                E. C. Barkofsky   Atomic Beam Apparatus for Studying the
                                  Atomic Spectra of Gases, Especially
                                  Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--93
              W. Ewart Williams   Attempts at Obtaining Excitation of an
                                  Atomic Beam of Monatomic Hydrogen  . . . 94--95
             William F. Meggers   Atomic Spectra of Rare Earth Elements    96--103
                H. R. Kratz and   
                     J. E. Mack   The Absorption Spectra of Potassium,
                                  Rubidium, and Caesium  . . . . . . . . . 104--104
                    Simon Freed   Spectra of Ions in Fields of Various
                                  Symmetry in Crystals and Solutions . . . 105--111
             Eugene Rabinowitch   Electron Transfer Spectra and Their
                                  Photochemical Effects  . . . . . . . . . 112--131
               Peter Pringsheim   Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of
                                  Thallium-Activated Potassium-Halide
                                  Phosphors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--138
                Fred L. Whipple   Meteors and the Earth's Upper Atmosphere 139--139
                    C. T. Elvey   The Light of the Night Sky . . . . . . . 140--150
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
                   Rupert Wildt   The Geochemistry of the Atmosphere and
                                  the Constitution of the Terrestrial
                                  Planets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159
              G. Van Biesbroeck   Structural Texture of Comets . . . . . . 160--163
             N. T. Bobrovnikoff   Physical Theory of Comets in the Light
                                  of Spectroscopic Data  . . . . . . . . . 164--178
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
                Andrew McKellar   Intensity Measurements on Emission Bands
                                  in Cometary Spectra  . . . . . . . . . . 179--189
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
                      P. Swings   Molecular Bands in Cometary Spectra.
                                  Identifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--194
                    G. Herzberg   Evidence for the Presence of CH$_2$
                                  Molecules in Comets  . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
               Ernest F. Barker   The Infra-Red Spectra of Triatomic
                                  Molecules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--203
             Robert S. Mulliken   Electronic Structures and Spectra of
                                  Triatomic Oxide Molecules  . . . . . . . 204--215
                   S. Mrozowski   Emission Spectrum of the Ion CO$_2^+$    216--218
                    G. Herzberg   $l$-Type Doubling in Linear Polyatomic
                                  Molecules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--223
                      H. Sponer   Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of
                                  Substituted Benzenes . . . . . . . . . . 224--231
                    A. L. Sklar   Electronic Absorption Spectra of Benzene
                                  and Its Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . 232--245
          Anthony Turkevich and   
                      Mark Fred   Rotational Structure of the Near
                                  Ultraviolet Bands of Benzene . . . . . . 246--247
       Maria Goeppert Mayer and   
            Kenneth J. McCallum   Calculation of the Absorption Spectrum
                                  of Wurster's Salts . . . . . . . . . . . 248--257
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
         Robert S. Mulliken and   
                 Carol A. Rieke   Bond Integrals and Spectra With an
                                  Analysis of Kynch and Penney's Paper on
                                  the Heat of Sublimation of Carbon  . . . 259--259
               Emma P. Carr and   
            Lucy W. Pickett and   
        Hildegard Stücklen   The Absorption Spectra of a Series of
                                  Dienes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--264
             Robert S. Mulliken   Structure and Ultraviolet Spectra of
                                  Ethylene, Butadiene, and Their Alkyl
                                  Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--274
           Leslie G. S. Brooker   Absorption and Resonance in Dyes . . . . 275--293
             K. F. Herzfeld and   
                    A. L. Sklar   Color and Constitution of Polymethine
                                  Dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--302
                 S. E. Sheppard   The Effects of Environment and
                                  Aggregation on the Absorption Spectra of
                                  Dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--340

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 14, Number 4, October, 1942

                   E. U. Condon   Principles of Micro-Wave Radio . . . . . 341--389
                Wilfried Heller   The Origin and the Complications of
                                  Electric Double Refraction and of
                                  Electric Dichroism in Dilute Dispersed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--409
                 S. E. Sheppard   Errata: The Effects of Environment and
                                  Aggregation on the Absorption Spectra of
                                  Dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 15, Number 1, January, 1943

               S. Chandrasekhar   Stochastic Problems in Physics and
                                  Astronomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--89
             Newell S. Gingrich   The Diffraction of X-Rays by Liquid
                                  Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--110

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 1943

                  Geo. Glockler   The Raman Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--173

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 15, Number 3, July, 1943

                       W. Pauli   On Dirac's New Method of Field
                                  Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--207

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 15, Number 4, October, 1943

            Emil Jan Konopinski   Beta-Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--245
                Fred L. Whipple   Meteors and the Earth's Upper Atmosphere 246--264


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 16, Number 1, January, 1944

               Glenn T. Seaborg   Table of Isotopes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
            Vladimir Karapetoff   Special Theory of Relativity in
                                  Hyperbolic Functions . . . . . . . . . . 33--52
                 J. J. Bikerman   Surface Roughness and Sliding Friction   53--68

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 16, Number 2, April, 1944

            Philip M. Morse and   
                Richard H. Bolt   Sound Waves in Rooms . . . . . . . . . . 69--150

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 16, Number 3--4, July, 1944

                 Karl K. Darrow   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
                   S. Mrozowski   Forbidden Lines in the Laboratory  . . . 153--174
               J. Gibson Winans   Partial Selection Rule for Sensitized
                                  Fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--181
                J. R. Platt and   
                  H. B. Klevens   Spectroscopy of Organic Molecules in the
                                  Vacuum Ultraviolet . . . . . . . . . . . 182--223
                      H. Sponer   The Near Ultraviolet Absorption of
                                  Pyridine Vapor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--225
                 E. Rabinowitch   Spectra of Porphyrins and Chlorophyll    226--235
                Arthur Adel and   
                   E. F. Barker   Grating Infra-Red Measurements at
                                  Oblique Incidence. Line Width in the
                                  Spectrum of N$_2$O . . . . . . . . . . . 236--240
           Alvin H. Nielsen and   
              Harald H. Nielsen   The Infra-Red Absorption Spectrum of
                                  Deutero-Methyl Chloride  . . . . . . . . 241--244
                Wave H. Shaffer   Degenerate Modes of Vibration and
                                  Perturbations in Polyatomic Molecules    245--259
               R. A. Oetjen and   
              H. M. Randall and   
                 W. E. Anderson   The Infra-Red Spectra of the Isomeric
                                  Octanes in the Liquid Phase  . . . . . . 260--264
               R. A. Oetjen and   
                  H. M. Randall   The Infra-Red Spectra of the Isomeric
                                  Octanes in the Vapor Phase . . . . . . . 265--270
             N. T. Bobrovnikoff   Spectra of the Planets . . . . . . . . . 271--285
                    Otto Struve   Recent Progress in the Interpretation of
                                  Stellar Spectra  . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--300
               S. Chandrasekhar   The Negative Ions of Hydrogen and Oxygen
                                  in Stellar Atmospheres . . . . . . . . . 301--306
             J. Rud Nielsen and   
                V. Thornton and   
                  E. Brock Dale   The Absorption Laws for Gases in the
                                  Infra-Red  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--324
                 J. J. Bikerman   Surface Roughness and Sliding Friction   324--324
            Philip M. Morse and   
                Richard H. Bolt   Sound Waves in Rooms . . . . . . . . . . 324--324


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 17, Number 1, January, 1945

                 Karl K. Darrow   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
                 P. W. Bridgman   Effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure on
                                  the Plastic Properties of Metals . . . . 3--14
          William F. Brown, Jr.   Virtues and Weaknesses of the Domain
                                  Concept  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
                 Clarence Zener   The Fracture Stress of Steel . . . . . . 20--26
                J. H. Van Vleck   A Survey of the Theory of Ferromagnetism 27--47
                   Saul Dushman   Application of Theory of Absolute
                                  Reaction Velocities to Creep of Metals   48--49
                  G. H. Wannier   The Statistical Problem in Cooperative
                                  Phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--60
                     Otto Beeck   Catalysis --- a Challenge to the
                                  Physicist (As Exemplified by the
                                  Hydrogenation of Ethylene over Metal
                                  Catalysts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--71
              R. M. Bozorth and   
                 H. J. Williams   Effect of Small Stresses on Magnetic
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--80
                 F. W. Constant   Ferromagnetic Impurities in Metals . . . 81--86
             A. R. Kaufmann and   
                  S. T. Pan and   
                    J. R. Clark   Magnetization of Gold-Iron and
                                  Gold-Nickel Solid Solutions  . . . . . . 87--92

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 17, Number 2--3, April, 1945

                       W. Pauli   Niels Bohr on His 60th Birthday  . . . . 97--101
                      G. Hevesy   On the Effect of Roentgen Rays on
                                  Cellular Division  . . . . . . . . . . . 102--111
                   James Franck   Photosynthetic Activity of Isolated
                                  Chloroplasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--119
            Albert Einstein and   
                Ernst G. Straus   The Influence of the Expansion of Space
                                  on the Gravitation Fields Surrounding
                                  the Individual Stars . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
                   G. Gamow and   
                      G. Keller   A Shell Source Model for Red Giant Stars 125--137
               S. Chandrasekhar   The Formation of Absorption Lines in a
                                  Moving Atmosphere  . . . . . . . . . . . 138--156
     John Archibald Wheeler and   
       Richard Phillips Feynman   Interaction with the Absorber as the
                                  Mechanism of Radiation . . . . . . . . . 157--181
                   L. H. Thomas   Relativistic Invariance  . . . . . . . . 182--186
                     Guido Beck   Field Concepts in Quantum Theory . . . . 187--194
                 P. A. M. Dirac   On the Analogy Between Classical and
                                  Quantum Mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . 195--199
                   H. J. Bhabha   Relativistic Wave Equations for the
                                  Elementary Particles . . . . . . . . . . 200--216
                 E. J. Williams   Application of Ordinary Space-Time
                                  Concepts in Collision Problems and
                                  Relation of Classical Theory to Born's
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--226
            J. H. Van Vleck and   
                V. F. Weisskopf   On the Shape of Collision-Broadened
                                  Lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--236
                   F. Bloch and   
                     I. I. Rabi   Atoms in Variable Magnetic Fields  . . . 237--244
                       Max Born   On the Quantum Theory of Pyroelectricity 245--251
                 W. Heitler and   
                       P. Walsh   Theory of Cosmic-Ray Mesons  . . . . . . 252--262
           Lamek Hulthén   Comments on the Difficulties of the
                                  Meson Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--266
                   W. Pauli and   
                          N. Hu   On the Strong Coupling Case for
                                  Spin-Dependent Interactions in Scalar-
                                  and Vector-Pair Theories . . . . . . . . 267--286
                   Lise Meitner   An Attempt to Single Out Some Fission
                                  Processes of Uranium by Using the
                                  Differences in Their Energy Release  . . 287--291
                Louis A. Turner   The Missing Heavy Nuclei . . . . . . . . 292--296
        Gordon A. R. Graham and   
               Hans Halban, Jr.   On the Angular Distribution of Neutrons
                                  in the Photo-Disintegration of the
                                  Deuteron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--304
                   O. Klein and   
                    J. Lindhard   Some Remarks on the Quantum Theory of
                                  the Superconductive State  . . . . . . . 305--309
                      F. London   Planck's Constant and Low Temperature
                                  Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--320
                    S. Goudsmit   Random Distribution of Lines in a Plane  321--322
             Ming Chen Wang and   
                G. E. Uhlenbeck   On the Theory of the Brownian Motion II  323--342
               H. B. G. Casimir   On Onsager's Principle of Microscopic
                                  Reversibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 17, Number 4, October, 1945

                    H. D. Smyth   Atomic Energy for Military Purposes  . . 351--471
   British Information Services   Statements Relating to the Atomic Bomb   472--490


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 18, Number 1, January, 1946

                 P. W. Bridgman   Recent Work in the Field of High
                                  Pressures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--93
               S. Chandrasekhar   On a New Theory of Weizsäcker on the
                                  Origin of the Solar System . . . . . . . 94--102
                      R. Samuel   The Dissociation Spectra of Covalent
                                  Polyatomic Molecules . . . . . . . . . . 103--147
                A. Einstein and   
                   E. G. Straus   Corrections and Additional Remarks to
                                  our Paper: The Influence of the
                                  Expansion of Space on the Gravitation
                                  Fields Surrounding the Individual Stars  148--149

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 1946

             R. Clark Jones and   
                    W. H. Furry   The Separation of Isotopes by Thermal
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--224
            N. N. Das Gupta and   
                    S. K. Ghosh   A Report on the Wilson Cloud Chamber and
                                  Its Applications in Physics  . . . . . . 225--290
                 P. W. Bridgman   Recent Work in the Field of High
                                  Pressures: Addendum  . . . . . . . . . . 291--291

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 18, Number 3, July, 1946

          M. Stanley Livingston   Ion Sources for Cyclotrons . . . . . . . 293--299
                   I. Estermann   Molecular Beam Technique . . . . . . . . 300--323
           J. B. M. Kellogg and   
                     S. Millman   The Molecular Beam Magnetic Resonance
                                  Method. The Radiofrequency Spectra of
                                  Atoms and Molecules  . . . . . . . . . . 323--352
                    L. M. Field   High Current Electron Guns . . . . . . . 353--361
                   G. A. Morton   Electron Guns for Television Application 362--378
                 A. M. Skellett   Beam Production in Radial Beam Tubes,
                                  Beam Power Tubes, and Other Low Voltage
                                  Electronic Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
                Frederick Seitz   Color Centers in Alkali Halide Crystals  384--408
               R. F. S. Hearmon   The Elastic Constants of Anisotropic
                                  Materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--440

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 18, Number 4, October, 1946

                   J. C. Slater   Microwave Electronics  . . . . . . . . . 441--512
          The Plutonium Project   Nuclei Formed in Fission: Decay
                                  Characteristics, Fission Yields, and
                                  Chain Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . 513--544


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1947

                     G. Wentzel   Recent Research in Meson Theory  . . . . 1--18
                      Anonymous   Erratum: Nuclei Formed in Fission: Decay
                                  Characteristics, Fission Yields, and
                                  Chain Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . 18--18
                 W. E. Stephens   The Neutron-Hydrogen Mass Difference and
                                  the Neutron Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
            L. D. Marinelli and   
         R. F. Brinckerhoff and   
                     G. J. Hine   Average Energy of Beta-Rays Emitted by
                                  Radioactive Isotopes . . . . . . . . . . 25--28
                  R. M. Bozorth   Magnetism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--86

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 1947

            Frederick Halverson   The Use of Deuterium in the Analysis of
                                  Vibrational Spectra  . . . . . . . . . . 87--131
                 G. D. Latyshev   The Interaction of $\gamma$-Rays With
                                  Matter and the Spectroscopy of
                                  $\gamma$-Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . 132--145

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 19, Number 3, July, 1947

          C. Jayaratnam Eliezer   The Interaction of Electrons and an
                                  Electromagnetic Field  . . . . . . . . . 147--184
              Robert E. Marshak   Theory of the Slowing Down of Neutrons
                                  by Elastic Collision with Atomic Nuclei  185--238
                Eugene Feenberg   Semi-Empirical Theory of the Nuclear
                                  Energy Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--258

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 19, Number 4, October, 1947

            H. H. Goldsmith and   
                H. W. Ibser and   
                     B. T. Feld   Neutron Cross Sections of the Elements:
                                  a Compilation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--297
           Raymond T. Birge and   
                 J. W. Weinberg   Least-Squares' Fitting of Data by Means
                                  of Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--360
                 G. M. Clemence   The Relativity Effect in Planetary
                                  Motions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 1948

                Frank B. Jewett   The Genesis of the National Research
                                  Council and Millikan's World War I Work  1--6
                 L. A. DuBridge   R. A. Millikan and the California
                                  Institute of Technology  . . . . . . . . 7--9
                Paul S. Epstein   Robert Andrews Millikan as Physicist and
                                  Teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--25
                   Duane Roller   Millikan's Influence on Undergraduate
                                  Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--30
                  Warren Weaver   Statistical Freedom of the Will  . . . . 31--34
                Albert Einstein   A Generalized Theory of Gravitation  . . 35--39
             Boris Podolsky and   
                  Philip Schwed   Review of a Generalized Electrodynamics  40--50
          Richard C. Tolman and   
                   Paul C. Fine   On the Irreversible Production of
                                  Entropy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--77
                  S. J. Barnett   Note on Diamagnetism: Clarification of
                                  Relations between Fundamental Molecular
                                  Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
         Jesse W. M. DuMond and   
               E. Richard Cohen   Our Knowledge of the Atomic Constants
                                  $F$, $N$, $m$, and $h$ in 1947, and of
                                  Other Constants Derivable Therefrom  . . 82--108
                    I. S. Bowen   The Abundance of Oxygen in the Sun . . . 109--112
              Linus Pauling and   
                  Fred J. Ewing   The Ratio of Valence Electrons to Atoms
                                  in Metals and Intermetallic Compounds    112--122
                  W. Bartky and   
                 A. J. Dempster   The Approach to Equilibrium in
                                  Fractionation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
                     Otto Beeck   Surface Catalysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
            Alexander Goetz and   
               Edward C. Y. Inn   Reversible Photolysis of Ag Sorbed on
                                  Collodial Metal Oxides . . . . . . . . . 131--142
               G. Potapenko and   
                D. Wheeler, Jr.   A New Method of Determining the
                                  Relaxation Time and the Dipole Moment of
                                  Polar Substances; Its Application to
                                  Fatty Acids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--150
                Leonard B. Loeb   Statistical Factors in Spark Discharge
                                  Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
                  W. V. Houston   Normal Vibrations of a Crystal Lattice   161--165
             Robert B. Leighton   The Vibrational Spectrum and Specific
                                  Heat of a Face-Centered Cubic Crystal    165--174
                   W. R. Smythe   Narrow Gaps in Microwave Problems  . . . 175--180
                    John Strong   The Parastatic Moving Needle
                                  Galvanometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--184
              R. F. Christy and   
                      R. Latter   Proton Widths of Light Nuclei  . . . . . 185--190
              W. F. Hornyak and   
                   T. Lauritsen   Energy Levels of Light Nuclei  . . . . . 191--227
          Milton S. Plesset and   
         Philip A. Shaffer, Jr.   Drag in Cavitating Flow  . . . . . . . . 228--231
                    Carl Eckart   The Theory of the Anelastic Fluid  . . . 232--235
               W. A. Fowler and   
            C. C. Lauritsen and   
                   T. Lauritsen   Gamma-Radiation from Excited States of
                                  Light Nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--277
                    H. R. Crane   The Energy and Momentum Relations in the
                                  Beta-Decay, and the Search for the
                                  Neutrino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--295
           Allan C. G. Mitchell   The Use of Coincidence Counting Methods
                                  in Determining Nuclear Disintegration
                                  Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--304
            Robley D. Evans and   
               Richard O. Evans   Studies of Self-Absorption in Gamma-Ray
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--326
                 Serge A. Korff   The Production of Nuclear Disruptions by
                                  the Cosmic Radiation . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
           Raymond V. Adams and   
           Carl D. Anderson and   
              Paul E. Lloyd and   
              R. Ronald Rau and   
                  Ram C. Saxena   Cosmic Rays at 30,000 Feet . . . . . . . 334--349
                H. V. Neher and   
                   W. C. Roesch   Cosmic-Ray Effects from Solar Flares and
                                  Magnetic Storms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--352
                A. T. Biehl and   
           R. A. Montgomery and   
                H. V. Neher and   
            W. H. Pickering and   
                   W. C. Roesch   A New Cosmic-Ray Telescope for High
                                  Altitudes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--359
                A. T. Biehl and   
           R. A. Montgomery and   
                H. V. Neher and   
            W. H. Pickering and   
                   W. C. Roesch   Recent Studies of the Cosmic-Ray
                                  Latitude Effect at High Altitudes  . . . 360--366

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 1948

                  R. P. Feynman   Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic
                                  Quantum Mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . 367--387
               Armin J. Deutsch   The Continuous Spectrum of the Sun . . . 388--398
                    Carl Eckart   The Approximate Solution of
                                  One-Dimensional Wave Equations . . . . . 399--417
                R. D. Cowan and   
                    G. H. Dieke   Self-Absorption of Spectrum Lines  . . . 418--455

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1948

                     F. Gutmann   The Electret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--472
                   W. R. Smythe   Erratum: Narrow Gaps in Microwave
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
                   J. C. Slater   The Design of Linear Accelerators  . . . 473--518
                A. B. Arons and   
                   D. R. Yennie   Energy Partition in Underwater Explosion
                                  Phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--536
                    Bruno Rossi   Interpretation of Cosmic-Ray Phenomena   537--583

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 1948

              G. T. Seaborg and   
                     I. Perlman   Table of Isotopes  . . . . . . . . . . . 585--667
                   Walter Gordy   Microwave Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . 668--717
             Joseph G. Hamilton   The Metabolic Properties of the Fission
                                  Products and Actinide Elements . . . . . 718--728


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 21, Number 1, January, 1949

             Robert A. Millikan   The Present Status of the Evidence for
                                  the Atom-Annihilation Hypothesis . . . . 1--13
                    R. Maze and   
            A. Fréon and   
                  J. Daudin and   
                       P. Auger   Extensive and Penetrating Atmospheric
                                  Showers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
                G. D. Rochester   The Penetrating Particles in Cosmic-Ray
                                  Showers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--26
                     G. Cocconi   Results and Problems Concerning the
                                  Extensive Air Showers  . . . . . . . . . 26--30
                   B. Rossi and   
             C. D. Anderson and   
          J. R. Oppenheimer and   
               G. E. Valley and   
                     R. D. Sard   Discussion on the Disintegration and
                                  Nuclear Absorption of Mesons . . . . . . 31--37
                Robert B. Brode   The Mass of the Mesotron . . . . . . . . 37--41
         Louis Leprince-Ringuet   Photographic Evidence for the Existence
                                  of a Very Heavy Meson  . . . . . . . . . 42--43
              S. E. Forbush and   
                 P. S. Gill and   
                 M. S. Vallarta   On the Mechanism of Sudden Increases of
                                  Cosmic Radiation Associated with Solar
                                  Flares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48
                      Anonymous   Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
               Evan O. Kane and   
           T. J. B. Shanley and   
                John A. Wheeler   Influence on the Cosmic-Ray Spectrum of
                                  Five Heavenly Bodies . . . . . . . . . . 51--71
           Raymond V. Adams and   
           Carl D. Anderson and   
                Eugene W. Cowan   Observations of Cosmic Rays at High
                                  Altitudes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--75
                 Serge A. Korff   A Critique of Ionization Measurements of
                                  Nuclear Disruptions Produced by Cosmic
                                  Radiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
                        J. Clay   The Energy Spectrum of Cosmic-Radiation
                                  Particles and Photons  . . . . . . . . . 82--93
                        J. Clay   High Energy Particles, Bursts, and
                                  Showers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--100
                H. L. Bradt and   
             Phyllis Freier and   
              E. J. Lofgren and   
                  E. P. Ney and   
             F. Oppenheimer and   
                      B. Peters   Evidence for Heavy Nuclei as a Component
                                  of Primary Cosmic Radiation  . . . . . . 101--103
                    Bruno Rossi   Electrons and Photons in Cosmic Rays . . 104--112
                     W. Heitler   Theory of Meson Production . . . . . . . 113--121
                 G. T. Reynolds   On the Effect of Lead above Apparatus
                                  for the Detection of Low Energy Mesons   122--123
    Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson and   
               K. Alan Yamakawa   Electron Emitting Power of Stopped
                                  Mesons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--132
                John A. Wheeler   Some Consequences of the Electromagnetic
                                  Interaction between $\mu^-$-Mesons and
                                  Nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--143
                  J. Tiomno and   
                John A. Wheeler   Energy Spectrum of Electrons from Meson
                                  Decay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--152
                  J. Tiomno and   
                John A. Wheeler   Charge-Exchange Reaction of the
                                  $\mu$-Meson with the Nucleus . . . . . . 153--165
                    W. Y. Chang   A Cloud-Chamber Study of Meson
                                  Absorption by Thin Pb, Fe, and Al Foils  166--180
              J. R. Oppenheimer   Concluding Remarks to Cosmic-Ray
                                  Symposium  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 1949

            Conyers Herring and   
                  M. H. Nichols   Thermionic Emission  . . . . . . . . . . 185--270
             Emilio Segr\`e and   
                 A. C. Helmholz   Nuclear Isomerism  . . . . . . . . . . . 271--304
            Victor F. Weisskopf   Recent Developments in the Theory of the
                                  Electron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315
                Martin O. Stern   The Masses of the Heavy Isotopes . . . . 316--321
                 J. C. Henniker   The Depth of the Surface Zone of a
                                  Liquid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--341

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 21, Number 3, July, 1949

             Robert A. Millikan   Albert Einstein on His Seventieth
                                  Birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--345
                  L. de Broglie   L'Oeuvre d'Einstein et la Dualité des
                                  Ondes et des Corpuscules . . . . . . . . 345--347
                    M. von Laue   Zu Albert Einsteins 70-tem Geburtstag    348--349
                  Philipp Frank   Einstein's Philosophy of Science . . . . 349--355
                 M. S. Vallarta   Galactic Rotation Effect and the Origin
                                  of Cosmic Radiation  . . . . . . . . . . 356--356
            Georges Lema\^\itre   Cosmological Application of Relativity   357--366
                       G. Gamow   On Relativistic Cosmogony  . . . . . . . 367--373
                      Anonymous   The Age of the Universe  . . . . . . . . 374--378
                H. P. Robertson   Postulate versus Observation in the
                                  Special Theory of Relativity . . . . . . 378--382
               S. Chandrasekhar   Brownian Motion, Dynamical Friction, and
                                  Stellar Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--388
                     A. H. Taub   A Special Method for Solving the Dirac
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--392
                 P. A. M. Dirac   Forms of Relativistic Dynamics . . . . . 392--399
               T. D. Newton and   
                   E. P. Wigner   Localized States for Elementary Systems  400--406
                   A. D. Fokker   On the Space--Time Geometry of a Moving
                                  Rigid Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--408
                  L. Infeld and   
                      A. Schild   On the Motion of Test Particles in
                                  General Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . 408--413
                   E. G. Straus   Some Results in Einstein's Unified Field
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--420
                 J. A. Schouten   On Meson Fields and Conformal
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--424
     John Archibald Wheeler and   
       Richard Phillips Feynman   Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of
                                  Direct Interparticle Action  . . . . . . 425--433
                   W. Pauli and   
                     F. Villars   On the Invariant Regularization in
                                  Relativistic Quantum Theory  . . . . . . 434--444
                    A. Pais and   
                  S. T. Epstein   Note on Relativistic Properties of
                                  Self-Energies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
                Kurt Gödel   An Example of a New Type of Cosmological
                                  Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations
                                  of Gravitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--450
                   H. J. Bhabha   On the Postulational Basis of the Theory
                                  of Elementary Particles  . . . . . . . . 451--462
                       Max Born   Reciprocity Theory of Elementary
                                  Particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--473
                  Hideki Yukawa   Models and Methods in the Meson Theory   474--479
          Peter G. Bergmann and   
         Johanna H. M. Brunings   Non-Linear Field Theories II. Canonical
                                  Equations and Quantization . . . . . . . 480--487
                    V. Bargmann   On the Connection between Phase Shifts
                                  and Scattering Potential . . . . . . . . 488--493
                   Giulio Racah   On the Decomposition of Tensors by
                                  Contraction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--496
              Cornelius Lanczos   Lagrangian Multiplier and Riemannian
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--502
                   Nathan Rosen   A Particle at Rest in a Static
                                  Gravitational Field  . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
               James Franck and   
              Robert Livingston   Remarks on Intra- and Inter-Molecular
                                  Migration of Excitation Energy . . . . . 505--509
               R. Ladenburg and   
                   D. Bershader   On Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layer
                                  in Supersonic Flow . . . . . . . . . . . 510--515
Theodore von Kármán and   
                      C. C. Lin   On the Concept of Similiarity in the
                                  Theory of Isotropic Turbulence . . . . . 516--519
       Hans Albert Einstein and   
        El-Sayed Ahmed El-Samni   Hydrodynamic Forces on a Rough Wall  . . 520--524
              W. J. de Haas and   
             G. J. van den Berg   On the Transfer Rate of the
                                  Rollin--Simon Film . . . . . . . . . . . 524--526
               Karl F. Herzfeld   Nodal Surfaces in Molecular Wave
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--530
                       O. Klein   On the Thermodynamical Equilibrium of
                                  Fluids in Gravitational Fields . . . . . 531--533
                     Otto Stern   On the Term $k \ln n!$ in the Entropy    534--535
                Banesh Hoffmann   Kron's Non-Riemannian Electrodynamics    535--540

Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 21, Number 4, October, 1949

                 Charles Kittel   Physical Theory of Ferromagnetic Domains 541--583
            Walker Bleakney and   
                     A. H. Taub   Interaction of Shock Waves . . . . . . . 584--605
                   N. C. Gerson   Nocturnal Ionization in the F$_2$
                                  Ionospheric Region . . . . . . . . . . . 606--624
                 Harrison Brown   A Table of Relative Abundances of
                                  Nuclear Species  . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--634
               A. O. Hanson and   
              R. F. Taschek and   
                 J. H. Williams   Monoergic Neutrons from Charged Particle
                                  Reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--650
            J. W. M. DuMond and   
               E. Richard Cohen   Our Knowledge of the Atomic Constants
                                  $F$, $N$, $m$, and $h$ in 1947, and of
                                  Other Constants Derivable Therefrom  . . 651--652


Reviews of Modern Physics
Volume 22, Number 3, July, 1950

        Emilio Segré and   
                 A. C. Helmholz   Erratum: Nuclear Isomerism . . . . . . . 237--237