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James Van Allen as physicist who was honored by the University of Iowa on October 2004, on the occasion of his 90th birthday discusses about his research and the changes he has seen in physics. He shares his experience of teaching and reveals that he loves to teach and to explain things.

Issues are presented concerning the White Paper published by the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel as an update to its 1998 report on the planning and development of high-energy physics in the US.

Albert Einstein has published two papers in the Physical review with Nathan Rosen, his first assistant director. Einstein stopped submitting work to the Physical Review after receiving a negative critique from the journal in response to a paper he wrote with Nathan Rosen, his first American assistant.

The problem with the erroneous prediction in Albert Einstein's 1905 paper went completely unnoticed until 1913, when a collection of papers pertaining to relativity was published. Although it should have been withdrawn when he generalized the theory to include gravity, the original error has received surprisingly little attention.

Albert Einstein's 1917 research paper on the quantization of energy for mechanical systems is presented. It also contains his brilliant discovery of the limitations of the old quantum theory in quantizing chaotic motion which even Einstein could not resolve and continuous to pose a challenge.

The US Naval Research Laboratory was able to detect Joe-1, the Soviet Union's first fission bomb test on Aug. 1949. Rainwater was gathered in barrels and radioactivity was detected by an advanced filter paper.

Physicist I.I. Rabi's paper entitled 'Space Quantization in a Gyrating Magnetic Field,' published in 1937, provided the basic theories for magnetic resonance experiments. His invention served as the basis for later physical research and applications.

This article dwells upon the wrogful claim of Victor Ninov, a scientist of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, of discovering a superheavy element 118 and the laboratory administration's retraction of the paper published in 1999.

A number of physicists have been honored by being depicted in paper currency starting around World War II. The earliest example is Rene Descartes whose first appearance in the French 100-franc note was in 1942.

The American Vacuum Society's (AVS) 1991 symposium is set for Nov 11-15 in Seattle. Over 100 papers will be presented at the conference, which also features equipment exhibits and a job placement center.

Sidney Richard Coleman, the Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University contributed majorly to the development of science through his papers. Coleman's major contributions were to the fields of quantum field theory and electrodynamics.

The long-lost manuscript of Einstein's 1925 paper 'Quantum Theory of Monatomic Ideal Gases' predicts Bose-Einstein condensation. The manuscript, which Einstein left in Leiden University with close friend Paul Ehrenfest, was rediscovered in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Erskine Williamson, a Scottish mathematical physicist, did research on various problems in physical chemistry, thermodynamics and heat flow from 1914 till his death in 1923. A series of his papers published between 1916 and 1923 broke new grounds in material research and laid the foundation for modern studies of planetary interiors.

Four theoretical papers are discussed, each describing how a specific network carries out a function in a particular group of organism. The study of how the 'hip bone is connected to the leg bone' can help to see how biological systems of unimaginable complexity can perhaps have grown from interconnections of modules of quiet imaginable complexity.

Albert Einstein's theory of radiation is extremely valuable and it specifies the basic methods that create images, consisting of various parts like the origin of quantum electrodynamics and optics, the introduction of masers and lasers, and atom cooling. In 1917 paper he mentioned the theory of radiation, specifying the introduction of the theory of spontaneous and stimulated emission along with the rates that specify the A and B coefficients.

OBITUARY: Anthony Houghton (1935-2003), a world-renowned theoretical condensed matter physicist, made a lasting contribution to the field as the author and co-author of more than 90 papers. In a well-known 1973 collaboration with Franz Wegner, Houghton made an important contribution to renormalization group theory by developing a differential form of the recursion relations.

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science conducting a two-dimensional combustion experiment with paper and oxygen established fingering instability. The controlled combustion process and result was also observed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and at the Lewis Research Center.

Taiwan vice premier Chao-Shiuan Liu has announced that the country is to significantly increase its science and technology funding starting 1998. Chao-Shiuan Liu drafted the white paper that recommend an increase in total R and D spending to 2.5% of the GDP by year 2000.

The downfall of the Soviet Union has permitted the study of the history of the development of nuclear arms in that country during the Cold War. A conference of Russian historians and scientists was held in Dubna, Russia in May 1996 in which papers were presented.

Physicist Carl Oberman died on Apr. 12, 1993 of lung cancer after nearly 40 years of work in plasma physics research. Noted for his pioneering papers, Oberman was a professor at the University of California, Irvine, at the time of his death.

William Streifer was a professor at the University of Rochester and University of New Mexico. He published important papers on beam-waves, coherence theory and diffraction as well as contributing to the development of the semiconductor laser. Streifer died on Oct 1, 1990.