Discusses various aspects of the current debate surrounding evolution and creationism including the debate between neocatastrophists and phyletic gradualists. Includes a brief history of the Creation Research Society and other groups formed by antievolutionists. (CS)

Reviews the career and accomplishments of the physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, including a discussion of scientific concepts associated with Dirac. (JN)

Presents supportive statements from a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and a Nobel Peace Prize winner that the scientific community has an obligation to inform the public fully about the impact of scientific developments. Autobiographical data concerning the author is also included. (CS)

Discusses proposed governmental science policy reforms, including administrative reforms of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, French equivalent to National Science Foundation. Indicates junior scientists, lab assistants, and technicians will be included in decision making and scientists will be barred from heading research terms for…

Compares and contrasts industrial and university physics departments, focusing on the group dynamics and work environment of a corporate physics (General Motors). A major difference between these departments lies in the motivation for and evaluation of research, not in the selection of research topics. (Author/JN)

The author traces interest in science teaching within the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which leads to the founding of its Section L (the education section) in 1900. Emphasis is given to the debate within the Association on the place of science education within the field of science. (SJL)

Traces the development of quantum field theory over the last 50 years beginning with the research of Paul Dirac. Includes past and current research endeavors of various scientists. (JN)

Focuses on past achievements of physicists beginning with the discovery of gaseous nebulae and listing seven commonly found characteristics of this and other observational discoveries which can foster further discovery. Suggests how theory is related to observation and where physicists make their greatest contributions to astronomy. (Author/JN)

Reported is a study which assessed the differences between female and male Ph.D.'s in the areas of salary and promotion. Results indicate female Ph.D.'s receive less pay and fewer and slower promotions than their male counterparts. (DS)

The concept of stereochemical nonequivalence (heterotopicity) of apparently identical ligands, or of apparently identical faces, is discussed. (HM)

Discusses the children of Aldo Leopold, their contributions to science and environmental conservation, and the influence of their father's ideas on their lives. (SA)

Discusses the results of interviews and questionnaires on the oral communication skills needed by research scientists. Proposes an oral communication course for science majors and generally summarizes its content. (JMF)

Discusses how Volta's concept of electromotive force seems to be forgotten. A comparison of the concepts of potential difference and electromotive force is also included. (HM)

Presents evidence to support the author's viewpoint that Einstein's General Relativity Theory is related to concepts of chemo-electricity. (CS)

Describes an experiment in passage retrieval for scientists using a variety of forms of retrieval question and search words selected independently by two different people. (FM)