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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. John Wolfe NASA Ames Research Center Preliminary Results Of The Pioneer 11 Saturn Encounter
Dr. David Morrison University of Hawaii The Moons Of Jupiter
Dr. John Clarke University of California, Berkeley Squids And Geophysics
Dr. W.K.H. Panofsky Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Arms Control And Salt
Dr. Carl Heiles University of California, Berkeley Interstellar Shells And Supershells
Jan Wright Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Energy Conservation--Where We Should Be Now
Jesse David Wall City College of San Francisco The Physics Of Magic--And Vice Versa
Film presentation One Small Step
Dr. Tom Barnebey Sound Solutions Acoustical Consulting Services and Sonoma State University Auditoriums: The Largest Musical Instruments
Mary Silber Sonoma State University Recent Experiments With Polarized Electron Beams
Dr. Francis Everitt Stanford University will describe a new test of Einstein's general theory of relativity based on orbiting very precise gyroscopes in satellites. The Relativity Gyroscope Experiment
Dr. Lawrence Colin NASA Ames Research Center The Extensive Exploration Of Venus In Dec 1978
Horace Newkirk China Lake Naval Weapons Center How To Keep A Spacecraft From Wobbling
Dr. Arthur Huffman University of California, Los Angeles Relativistic Interstellar Travel
James E. Long Jet Propulsion Laboratory Preliminary Results Of The Voyager Jupiter Encounter
Dr. Sumner P. Davis University of California, Berkeley Now You See It, Now You Don't: Stalking The Elusive Photon
Rick DeFreez Sonoma State University Stimulated Emission: From Einstein To The Laser
Dr. Rainer Sachs University of California, Berkeley Einstein And Cosmology
Dr. Joe S. Tenn Sonoma State University Bose-Einstein Condensation And Superfluidity In Liquid Helium
John C. Mallinson Ampex Corporation The Magnetic Recorder As A Communications Channel