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Print edition: December 1997
Features
Seeing the spins in solids
1998 Guthrie medal and prize
1998 Paul Dirac medal and prize
1998 Charles Vernon Boys medal and prize
1998 Bragg medal and prize
Eureka -- an inventive approach
Neutrons for the future Finney J, Steigenberger U
Science could be squeezed off the Internet, meeting warned
Black mark for Blackstone
Lords back business angels
Management slated at US labs
Physics in Action
Experiment finds one in a billion
Electric pulses pack a punch
Stark choice for tokamaks
Two images are better than one
Experiment finds one in a billion Peach K
Post-deadline
Traffic jams defy physics
New routes to fusion
Einstein's legacy lives on
News & Analysis
New magnets go west
Catastrophe claim splits ESA
Themes and variations
Big gains for small science as research council is overhauled
Subatomic threat to CNRS
Papal eye on the sky
UK rethinks military R&D
Editorial
Forum
Science studies -- what's wrong?
Reviews
Tunnelling for victory in particle physics
Slippery as an eel
Radar tale picks up US bias
Bell: inventor with a mission
Fifty years of transistor action
Cartoon characters
The ion and the corpuscle
Can time mend a broken watch?
Retracing female routes to success
Stretch out with some polymers
Pi, the elusive ratio
Holes in a final theory?
Fifty years of transistor action
The ion and the corpuscle
Slippery as an eel
Seeing particles
Wade Patterson
Brian Maddock
John Jelley
Adolf Schallamach
Tunnelling for victory in particle physics
Retracing female routes to success
The Life of the Cosmos Lee Smolin
The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War Gordon Fraser
The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light David Park
The Invention That Changed the World: The Story of Radar From War to Peace Robert Buderi
Sounds Out of Silence: A Life of Alexander Graham Bell James Mackay
Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson
Two-fisted Science
Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of J J Thomson's Electron Per Dahl
Time's Arrows and Quantum Measurement Lawrence S Schulman
Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constraints Susan Ambrose, Kristin Dunkle, Barbara Lazarus, Indira Nair and Deborah Harkus
Giant Molecules: Here, There and Everywhere... Alexander Yu Grosberg and Alexei Khokllov
The Joy of Pi
