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  • ISBN: 3-527-26841-3
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    Published: November 1996

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    Editorial Board

    Advisory Board

    Shojiro Asai
    Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Saitama, Japan

    Aaron N. Bloch
    Columbia University, New York, NY

    Nicolas Bloembergen
    Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

    W.F. Brinkman, Research
    Physics Division III, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

    R.W. Cahn
    Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, MA

    Praveen Chaudhari
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

    Mildred Dresselhaus
    MIT, Cambridge, MA

    Charles B. Duke
    Xerox Webster Research Center, Websters, NY

    Otto G. Folberth
    IBM Deutschland GmbH, Boblingen, FRG

    Simon Foner
    Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA

    T.H. Geballe
    Stanford University, CA

    John K. Hulm
    Westinghouse Research Laboratories (Ret.)

    Hiroshi Kamimura
    Department of Applied Physics, Science University of Tokyo, Japan

    Ken Kikuchi
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

    John G. Larson
    Physics Department, General Motors Research and Development, Warren, MI

    Rita Lerner
    Consultant

    Hans Mark
    Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, TX

    Frederick J. Mayer
    FJM Associates, Ann Arbor, MI

    C. Kumar Patel
    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    Arthur Scharmann
    University of Giessen, FRG

    Werner Schmidt
    Fa. Carl Zeiss (Ret.)

    Herwig Schopper
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    Hiroyoshi Suematsu
    Department of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan

    Herbert Walther
    Max-Plank-Instiutut für Quantenoptik, Garching, FRG


    Editorial Board

    Berni Alder
    Consultant, El Cerrito, CA

    Richard Anderson
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

    Peter Atkins
    Lincoln College, Oxford, UK

    Peter M. Bell
    Norton Company, Worcester, MA

    Robert T. Beyer
    Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI

    Martin Blume
    Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

    Robert R. Borchers
    National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

    Joseph C. Cain
    Department of Geology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

    F. Fleming Crim
    Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

    Kenneth M. Crowe
    Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

    Ronald C. Davidson
    Princeton University, NJ

    Floyd Dunn
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

    Hellmut Fritzsche
    The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, IL

    Harold P. Furth
    Princeton University, NJ

    Daniel R. Grischkowsky
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

    Thomas W. Grudkowski
    United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CT

    Peter E. Haustein
    Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

    Jan F. Herbst
    Physics Department, General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI

    Joseph P.C. Heremans
    Physics Department, General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI

    Bernardo Jaduszliwer
    The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

    Koji Kajimura
    Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ibaraki, Japan

    S.P. Keller
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

    Akira Kinbara
    Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

    William Kuperman
    Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

    Joseph Loferski
    Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI

    Andrew A. Marino
    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Louisiana Sate University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA

    Thomas M. Mayer
    Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

    Noburo Miura
    Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshimasa Murayama
    Advanced Research laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Saitama, Japan

    E. Thomas Nash
    Research Division, Fermilab, Batavia, IL

    Arto Nurmikko
    Division of Engineering, Brown University, providence, RI

    Sokrates Pantelides
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

    John M. Poate
    Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

    Donald Prosnitz
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

    Alex Quintanilha
    Insituto Nacional de Investigação Cientifica, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

    Arthur H. Rosenfeld
    Lawrence Berkeley laboratory, Berkeley, CA

    Denis L. Rousseau
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

    Harvey Scher
    Standard Oil Research and Development (Ret.)

    Gen Shirane
    Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

    George W. Smith
    Physics Department, General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI

    Benjamin B. Snavely
    Division of Astronomical Science, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC

    Hiroaki Tagashira
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Andrew C. Tam
    IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

    H.E. Weaver
    Sets, Inc., Portola Valley, CA

    Watt W. Webb
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

    David Welch
    Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

    Herman Winick
    Stanford University, CA

    Noriyoshi Yamauchi
    NTT Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan


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