AIPHISTORY NEWSLETTER - American Institute of Physics

A Comparative Overview of Science Mobilization in National
Socialist Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union” by Walter E.
Grunden, Yutaka Kawamura, Eduard Kochinsky, Helmut Maier,
and Masakatsu Yamazaki; of “Wartime Nuclear Weapons Research
in Germany and Japan” by Walter E. Grunden, Mark
Walker, and Masakatsu Yamazaki; and of “Aerodynamics and
Mathematics in National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy: A
Comparison of Research Institutes” by Moritz Epple, Andreas
Karachalios, and Volker R. Remmert.
Jan Frercks writes about “Fizeau’s Research Program on Ether
Drag: A Long Quest for a Publishable Experiment” in vol. 7, no.
1 of Physics in Perspective. Lawrence Badash considers “American
Physicists, Nuclear Weapons in World War II, and Social
Responsibility” in no. 2 of the same volume. Also in no. 2, John
Krige writes about “Isidor I. Rabi and CERN,” and Frank Tibor
about “Ever Ready to Go: The Multiple Exiles of Leo Szilard.”
These two no.s contain the two-part interview of William A.
Fowler by John Greenberg.
AIP’s own Physics Today has several article of interest including:
“The Uranium Bomb, the Calutron, and the Space-Charge
Problem” by William E. Parkins in May 2005; “Citation Statistics
from 110 Years of Physical Review” by Sidney Redner in June
2005; and “Einstein’s Unknown Insight and the Problem of
Quantizing Chaos” by A. Douglas Stone in August 2005.
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan writes about “Max Born and the
Peace Movement” in the April 2005 issue of Physics World.
M. I. Monastyrskii writes about “John von Neumann” in Physics-Uspekhi,
vol. 47, no. 12.
Rocco J. Perlal and James Carifiol take a shot at “The Nature of
Scientific Revolutions from the Vantage Point of Chaos Theory:
Toward a Formal Model of Scientific Change” in vol. 14 of Science
& Education, while Seiya Abikol offers “The Light-Velocity
Postulate: The Essential Difference between the Theories of
Lorentz-Poincaré and Einstein.”
Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir considers a topic familiar to physicists
in Social Studies of Science, vol. 35, no. 4, with “On the Role of
Electronic Preprint Exchange in the Distribution of Scientific
Literature.”
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12 ● History Newsletter Fall 2005
Ralph Leighton was a close friend of Richard Feynman and his drumming
and adventure partner. The two best-sellers, Surely You’re Joking Mr.
Feynman and What Do You Care What other People Think? are “as told
to Ralph Leighton.” Here Ralph played the drums at the dedication of a
stamp and a street renamed after Feynman, as a tribute to his friend.
Donated by the photographer, Gerald Skloot, May 2005.
Documentation Preserved
Compiled by Jennifer S. Sullivan and Melanie Brown
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES. BURNABY, BRIT-
ISH COLUMBIA V5A 156, CANADA
Records of Simon Fraser University, Department of Physics.
Collection dates: 1965-1986. Size: 6.5 linear feet. Restrictions:
Several series are subject to access restrictions.
PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS. 63A
GREAT RUSSELL ST., LONDON WC1B 3BJ, UK
The Papers of Joseph Rotblat, 1908-2005. Size: Approximately 500
linear feet. Restrictions: This collection is not available for immediate
access; please contact the repository for information.