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High Field Superconducting Magnets by Fred M Asner, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 851764 5 (£55). Fred Asner traces the discovery and understanding of superconductivity. This includes the de...
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CERN Courier welcomes feedback but reserves the right to edit letters. Please e-mail “cern.courier@cern.ch”. Civil rights The standfirst of your July article “How Martin Luther King ...
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The MATHEMATICA Book, Version 4, by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Cambridge University Press 0521 643147 (£35/$49.95). Mathematica is one of the most important programs for algebraic (in con...
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From Hiroshima to the Iceman From Hiroshima to the Iceman: the Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry by Harry E Gove, Institute of Physics Publishing 07503 0557 6 (hbk £50...
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Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, edited by Tian Yu Cao, Cambridge University Press 0 521 63152 1 (hbk £60/$100). Tian Yu Cao’s book Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Fi...
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Nuclear emulsions
In the May 1966 issue, A J Herz and W O Lock described the development of nuclear-emulsion detectors, highlighting a CERN experiment that determined the magnetic moment of the Λ0 baryon.
