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PHYSICS SURVEY COMMITTEE
WILLIAM F. BRINKMAN, Sandia nationwide Laboratories, Chairman
JOSEPH CERNY, collage of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
RONALD C. DAVIDSON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JOHN M. DAWSON, college of California, Los Angeles
MILDRED S.. DRESSELHAUS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
HANS FRAUENFELDER, collage of Illinois, Chairman
FELIX H. BOEHM, California Institute of Technology
RICHARD G. BREWER, IBM San Jose learn Laboratory
DEAN E. EASTMAN, IBM T.J. Watson learn Center
JAMES E. GUNN, Princeton University
LEO P. KADANOFF, The college of Chicago
W. CARL LINEBERGER, collage of Colorado
NORMAN F. RAMSEY, Harvard University
MORTON S. ROBERTS, nationwide Radio Astronomy Observatory
MARSHALL N. ROSENBLUTH, collage of Texas at Austin
WILLIAM P.. SLICHTER, AT&T Bell Laboratories
SAM B. TREIMAN, Princeton University
DONALD C. SHAPERO, employees Director
ROBERT L. RIEMER, employees Officer
HELENE PATTERSON, employees Assistant
SUSAN WYATT, employees Assistant
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VAL L. FITCH, Princeton University
PAUL A. FLEURY, AT&T Bell Laboratories
WILLIAM A. FOWLER, W. okay. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory
THEODOR W. HÄNSCH, Stanford University
VINCENT JACCARINO, college of California, Santa Barbara
DANIEL KLEPPNER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ALEXEI A. MARADUDIN, college of California, Irvine
PETER D. MACD. PARKER, Yale University
MARTIN L. PERL, Stanford University
WATT W. WEBB, Cornell University
DAVID T. WILKINSON, Princeton University
DONALD C. SHAPERO, employees Director
ROBERT L. RIEMER, employees Officer
CHARLES ok. REED, Consultant
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COMMISSION ON actual SCIENCES, arithmetic, AND RESOURCES
HERBERT FRIEDMAN, nationwide learn Council, Chairman
THOMAS D. BARROW, regular Oil corporation (Retired)
ELKAN R. BLOUT, Harvard clinical School
WILLIAM BROWDER, Princeton University
BERNARD F. BURKE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GEORGE F. service, Harvard University
CHARLES L. DRAKE, Dartmouth College
MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JOSEPH L. FISHER, workplace of the Governor, Commonwealth of Virginia
JAMES C. FLETCHER, college of Pittsburgh
WILLIAM A. FOWLER, California Institute of Technology
GERHART FRIEDLANDER, Brookhaven nationwide Laboratory
EDWARD D. GOLDBERG, Scripps establishment of Oceanography
MARY L. solid, sign examine Center
J. ROSS MACDONALD, collage of North Carolina
THOMAS F. MALONE, Saint Joseph College
CHARLES J. MANKIN, Oklahoma Geological Survey
PERRY L. MCCARTY, Stanford University
WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS, Mallinckrodt, Inc.
ROBERT E. SILVERS, college of Colorado
JOHN D. SPENOLER, Harvard institution of Public Health
GEORGE W. WETHERILL, Carnegie establishment of Washington
RAPHAEL G. KASPER, govt Director
LAWRENCE E. MCCRAY, affiliate government Director

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Page breaks are true to the original; line lengths, word breaks, heading styles, and other typesetting-specific formatting, however, cannot be retained, and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. PROGRESS IN PHYSICS 28 and different spin configurations represent different memories. Another is the development of the Monte Carlo annealing techniques, derived from numerical simulations of spin glasses.

Among the quarks, the up and down quarks pair together, as do the charm and strange quarks. Second, the quark family and lepton family are related: each quark pair is uniquely related to one lepton pair by a simple arrangement called the generation model. We do not understand why the generation model works, nor do we know if there are more generations. In fact, we do not know why the quarks and leptons are related at all. To find the answers to these questions, experiments with higher-energy accelerators are being planned to explore the internal structure and dynamics of the known particles, to search for new particles, and to provide the data essential to constructing new theories.

PROGRESS IN PHYSICS 15 tal theoretical advances in gravitational physics are leading to a better understanding of black holes and quantization of gravity, and a prediction of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has been verified to 2 parts in 1000, using the Viking spacecraft on Mars. Basic theoretical and experimental research has now prepared the way for major efforts to detect gravitational radiation. This dramatic advance could take place in the next decade and open an important new window on the universe.

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