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... at Fermilab, 60 CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility) , 56, 61, 62 CERN (Conseil Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire)
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... , 71 Department of Defense-University Instrumentation Program, 51 Disordered materials, 27 Doctoral degrees, physics, 93 Doctorates, physics, by subfield, 98 DOD (Department of Defense) , 71 Down quark, 18, 19 E Economic growth, 10 Education, 2, 45 Committee on, of the American Physical Society, 47-48 of foreign physicists in U.S., 87-90 of foreign students enrolled in graduate physics programs in U.S., 89 graduate, 48-49 of next generation of physicists, 46-49 primary, 46-47 secondary, 46-47, 92 supply of physicists and, 91 - 114 undergraduate, 47-48 Electromagnetic force, 20-21 theory, 7 traps, 28-29 Electron-plasma oscillation, 14 Electron-positron collider, 60-61 pair, 31 Electrons, 19 Electroweak interactions, 11-12 Elementary-particle physics, 2, 11 - 12 avoiding duplication of research in, 86 construction projects in, 134 funding history for, 79-81 important achievements in, 84 major experimental advances in, 84 NSF and DOE funding for, 125, 126, 129, 131 panel on, 158 progress in, 18-21 recommended program for, 58-61 Employment, physics, patterns of, 101102 Endoscopes, fiber-optic, 43
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... , 36 Galactic plasma, 14 Gamma rays, 15 discrete sources of, 39 General relativity, 35-37 Generation model, 20 Geophysics, physics interface with, 40-41 Glasses, 27 spin, 27-28 Glossary of physical terms, 142-156 Gluons, 2, 12 GNP (gross national product) , 76-81 Graduate education, 48-49 students, physics, 92-94 Grand Unification Theory, 37-38 Gravitation physics, 3, 15 federal obligations for, 130, 133 panel on, 158 progress in, 35-37 Gravitational constant G
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... , 8-9 Magnetic-field reconnection, 32 Magnetospheres, 14, 34 Manpower, see Physicists Mansfield Amendment, 130 Mass, missing, in universe, 17 Materials science, physics interface with, 41 Medicine, physics and, 42-43 Meson exchange currents, 62 hIetallorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) , 26 MFAC (Magnetic Fusion Advisory Committee)
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... D production, physics, 109-114 Photoemission studies, 24 Physical terms, glossary of, 142-156 Physicists aging community of, 99-101 demand projections, see Demand projections, physicists demand-supply balance, 112, 114 educating, 3, 45; see also Education, next generation of, 46-49 European, 8 excellence of, 69-70 female, 4, 70 foreign-born, 70 education of, in U.S., 87-90 freedom for, 87 future demand for, 69-70 producing trained young, 92-95 production of, 4 projections of demand and supply of, 102-113 retirement rate, 91 role of, 9 supply projections 9 108- 113 Physics, 1, 6 applications of, 15, 16 panel on, 159-160 progress in, 42-43 degree holders, retention of, 98-99 degree production, 94 discoveries in, 2-3 doctoral degrees, 93 doctorates by subfield, 98 education in, see Education employment, patterns of, 101- 102 enrollments in, see Enrollments excellence in, 44-45 graduate, foreign students in, 89 graduate students, 92-94 impact of, 3 increased internationalization in, 85 industry and, 43 interfaces of, see Interfaces of physics international aspects of, see International entries large facilities and major programs in, 3-4, 53-69 maintaining excellence in, 44-73 medicine and, 42-43 nation and, 2-3 Nobel Prize in, see Nobel Prize in Physics organization and decision making in, 135-137 organization and support of, 115- 137 Ph.D.
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... , 56, 61, 62 S Scientists, see Physicists Secondary education crisis in, 92 physics and, 46-47 Security, national, 43 Seismology, 40-41 underwater, 41 Semiconductors, 7-8 Shell-model orbits, 23 Simulation physics, 72 SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , 59, 60 Small-group physics, 3, 49-53 Society, physics and, 6-10 Solar wind, 14 Solitons, 32 Space plasma, 34, 67 program, vigorous, in astrophysics, 68 Spectroscopy, 17 advances in, 39 Spin glass, 27-28 SSC (Superconducting Super Collider)
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... , 33, 54, 66 Top quark, 18, 19 Transistors, 7-8 Tunneling microscope, 24-25 Turbulence, 17, 35 fundamental theory of, 41 U Ultraviolet Radiation Synchrotron, 57 Undergraduate education, 47-48 Unification of forces of nature, 20-21 Universe isotropic, 37 missing mass in, 17 Universities demand scenarios for physicists in, 105, 106, 107 research and, 3, 48-49, 117 small-group research in, 3, 51-53 Up quark, 18, 19 W W particles, 20-21 Weak force, 20-21 z Z particle, 20-21
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Key Terms

  • construction projects
  • recommended program
  • funding history
  • nobel prize
  • demand projections

  • gravitational constant
  • foreign students
  • mission agencies
  • fine structure
  • exchange programs

  • doe funding
  • vapor deposition
  • electron beam
  • accelerator laboratory
  • physics interface

  • raman scattering
  • brookhaven national
  • accelerator facility
  • national accelerator
  • burning core

  • absorption fine
  • avoiding duplication
  • core experiment
  • fusion research
  • storage ring

  • recherche nucleaire
  • degree holders
  • chemical vapor
  • degree production
  • international aspects


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