Physics Today Annual Index 1990

© American Physical Society
APS news from APS
BR  book review
L   letter
MP  meeting preview
OB  obituary
OP  opinion
PC  physics community
RF  reference frame 
SD  search & discovery
WR  Washington reports

SUBJECT INDEX

Accelerators

See also Department of Energy; Particle physics; Superconducting Super Collider, Synchrotron radiation

Acoustical Society of America

See also Awards

Acoustics

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

See also Awards

American Association of Physics Teachers

See also Awards

American Astronomical Society

See also Awards

American Crystallographic Association

See also Awards

American Geophysical Union

See also Awards

American Institute of Physics

See also Awards

American Physical Society

See also Awards

American Vacuum Society

See also Awards

Arms control

See also Military physics

Astronomy and astrophysics

See also Cosmology and general relativity; Space science

Atmospheric science

See Geophysics

Atomic, molecular and chemical physics

Awards

Biography and parsonality

See also History and philosophy; Obituaries; Sakharov, Andrei

Biophysics and medical physics

Budgets

See Funding and budgets

Chaos and fractals

See Computers and computational physics; Condensed matter physics; Fluids; Theory and mathematical physics

China, People's Republic of

See also International science

Computers and computational physics

See also Electronics

Condensed matter physics

See also Crystallography. Fluids; Materials science; Nanotechnology; Superconductivity and superfluidity; Surfaces and thin films; Synchrotron radiation

Cosmology and general relativity

See also Astronomy and astrophysics; Particle physics; Theory and mathematical physics

Crystallography

See also Condensed matter physics

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

See also Computers and computational physics; Government and physics in the US; Military physics

Department of Defense

See also Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; Military physics

Department of Energy

See also Accelerators; Energy and environment; Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; Science policy and politics; Superconducting Super Collider

Earth and planetary sciences

See Geophysics; Space science

Education

See also Employment; Funding and budgets; Science policy and politics; Society and physics; Sociology of science;

Electronics

See also Computers and computational physics; Industrial research; Nanotechnology

Employment

See also Education; Industrial research; Society and physics; Sociology of science

Energy and environment

See also Department of Energy; Fusion and plasmas

Europe

See also International science

Export controls

See also Technology transfer

Fluids

See also Condensed matter physics; Superconductivity and superfluidity

Funding and budgets

See also Department of Defense; Department of Energy; Education; Government and physics in the US; Industrial research; NASA; National Science Foundation; Research and R&D; Science policy and politics; Universities; US national laboratories and institutes

Fusion and plasmas

See also Energy and environment

Geophysics

See also Energy and environment; Space science

Government and physics in the US

See also Arms control; Awards; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; Export controls; Funding and budgets; International science; Military physics; National Science Foundation; Office of Science and Technology Policy; Science policy and politics; Society and physics; Superconducting Super Collider; Technology transfer

High-Tc superconductivity

See Condensed matter physics; Materials science; Superconductivity and superfluidity

History and philosophy

See also Biography and personality. Obituaries; Quantum theory and philosophy; Sakharov, Andrei

Human rights

See also International science; Society and physics; Sociology of science

Industrial research

See also Electronics; Employment; Research and R&D

Instrumentation and techniques

International science

See also Arms control; China, People's Republic of; Europe; Government and physics in the US; Human rights; Japan; Military physics; Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Third world

Japan

See also International science

Journals

See Publishing, journals, electronic publishing

Lasers

See Optics and lasers

Low-temperature physics

See Superconductivity and superfluidity

Materials research Society

See also Awards

Materials science

See also Condensed matter physics; Industrial research

Media and the press

See also Publishing, journals, electronic publishing

Medical physics

See Biophysics and medical physics

Meetings and conferences

Metrology and fundamental constants

Military physics

See also Arms control; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Department of Defense; Government and physics in the US; Society and physics

Minorities and women in physics

Miscellaneous

Nanotechnology

See also Condensed matter physics; Electronics

NASA

See also Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; Science policy and politics; Space science

National Academy of Engineering

See also Awards; Science policy and politics; Sociology of science

National Academy of Sciences

See also Awards; Science policy and politics; Sociology of science

National Science Foundation

See also Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; Science policy and politics

Nuclear physics

Nuclear reactors and nuclear energy

See Department of Energy; Energy and environment; Military physics

Obituaries

Office of Science and Technology Policy

See also Covernment and physics in the US; Science policy and politics

Optical Society of America

See also Awards

Optics and lasers

Particle physics

See also Accelerators; Department of Energy; Superconducting Super Collider; Theory and mathematical physics

People' s Republic of China

See China, People's Republic of

Philosophy of science

See History and philosophy; Quantum theory and philosophy

Plasmas and fusion

See Fusion and plasmas

Publishing, journals, electronic publishing

See also Media and the press

Quantum theory and philosophy

See also History and philosophy; Theory and mathematicalphysics

Research and R&D

See also Funding and budgets; Industrial research; Science policy and politics; Technology assessment

Rheology

See also Materials science; Fluids

Sakharov, Andrei

See also Arms control; Biography and personality; History and philosophy; Human rights; Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Science policy and politics

See also Export controls; Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; National Science Foundation; National Academy of Engineering; National Academy of Sciences; Office of Science and Technology Policy; Sociology of science

Scientific exchanges

See China, People's Republic of; International science; Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Scientific societies

See also Awards and under names of individual societies

Semiconductors

See Electronics; Industrial research; Nanotechnology; Research and R&D

Society and physics

See also Education; Employment; Energy and environment; Government and physics in the US; Media and the press; Science policy and politics; Sociology of science

Society of Physics Students

See Awards

Society of Rheology

See also Awards

Sociology of science

See also Biography and personality; Education; History and philosophy; Employment; Media and the press; Minorities and women in physics; Publishing, journals, electronic publishing; Science policy and politics; Society and physics; Women in physics

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

See also International science; Sakharov, Andrei

Space science

See also Astronomy and astrophysics; NASA

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

See also Condensed matter physics; Theory and mathematical physics

Superconducting Super Collider

See also Accelerators; Department of Energy; Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; Particle physics; Science policy and politics

Superconductivity and superfluidity

See also Condensed matter physics; Materials science

Surfaces and thin films

See also Condensed matter physics

Synchrotron radiation

See also Accelerators; Condensed matter physics

Technology and engineering

See Computers and computational physics; Electronics; Export controls; Industrial research; Nanotechnology; Research and R&D; Technology assessment; Technology transfer

Technology assessment

See also Research and R&D

Technology transfer

See also Export controls; Government and physics in the US; Science policy and politics; Society and physics

Theory and mathematical physics

See also Quantum theory and philosophy; Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

See Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Third world

See also International science

Universities

See also Education; Employment; Funding and budgets

US national laboratories and institutes

See also Accelerators; Department of Energy; Funding and budgets; Government and physics in the US; NASA; Research and R&D

Vacuum science and technology

Weapons

See Arms control; Department of Defense; Military physlCS

Women in physics

See Minorities and women in physics


BOOKS REVIEWED

Astronomy and astrophysics

Atomic and molecular physics

Biophysics and medical physics

Chaos and nonlinear systems

Condensed matter physics

Cosmology and relativity

Energy and environment

Fluids

History and philosophy

Instrumentation and techniques

Materials science

Nuclear physics

Optics and photonics

Particle physics

Physical electronics

Society and government

Statistical physics

Texts and popularizations

Miscellaneous


AUTHORS


Last modified: Aug 29, 1995
Joachim Reinhardt jr@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de