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Print edition: November 1997
Features
Grains of understanding
Cecil Powell: pions, peace and politics
The art of measuring quantum states
Laser-cooled atoms clinch Nobel prize
Nobel laureates generate publicity in Poland
Heavyweights debate research interfaces
Physicists celebrate anniversaries at particle jamboree
IUPAP tackles new challenges
Physics in Action
New twist on gravitational spin?
Fresh insights into electron oscillations
Light follows the example of electrons
Atoms get a big push, or is that a pull?
Models link nuclei with buckyballs
Post-deadline
Current flow measured in single molecules
Drips go with the flow
Organics observed on Jupiter's moon
News & Analysis
1997 Nobel prizes
CERN hustings
...but falls in Denmark
Students suffer with old equipment
Smart mission
EC advisory body slims down
US calls for extra funds
Japan thinks big
Funding rises in France
JET sets fusion record
Laser gains
New sites for Oxford Instruments
Euro defence giant born
Homes to plug into the Internet
NATO looks east
Science gets a higher profile
Funding cuts dismay physicists
New faces at research councils
Synchrotron boost
Funding: and rises in the US ...
Empire strikes back
Editorial
Forum
Fusion energy: the agony, the ecstasy and the alternatives
Feedback
Scientific literacy starts at school
Reviews
Sizing up the universe
Europe's success based on national aims
Jack the dripper: chaos in modern art?
Kalervo Laurikainen
Louis Essen
Mary O'Brien
Reginald Gibbs
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins Alan Guth
States of Matter, States of Mind Allan Barton
Eureka! Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe Roger Blin-Stoyle
Why Things Are the Way They Are Bellur Sivaramiah Chandrasekhar
History of European Scientific and Technological Cooperation ed John Krige and Luca Gazetti
