Information

Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2016

Volume

72

Number

4

Theme

A Century of Physics at the National Research Council

Guest Editor

Alan Steele - National Research Council of Canada

Cover description

NRC's story is found in the mosaic of imprints of everyone who passes through.

Articles (Click on the titles to open PDFs in a new tab)

Foreword

• Celebrating 100 years of Physics at NRC
  • Alan Steele

Feature Articles

• A Century of Physics at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
  • Helene Letourneau, Paul Renaud

• Quantifying our World
  • David J. Lockwood, Nelson L. Rowell

• The Great Leap Forward: NRC and the Microscopic Structures and Transformations of Matter
  • Albert Stolow

• Generations of Biophysics: From Nucleotides to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  • Linda J. Johnston

• Lab to industry: science at work for Canada
  • Sylvain Charbonneau

In Memoriam

• Vireshwar Vishwanath Paranjape (1930-2016)

• Tudor Wyatt Johnston (1932-2016)

Conference Reports

• Report on Canada’s participation in the 47th International Physics Olympiad in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Andrzej Kotlicki

CAP News

• Science Policy

• Departmental, Sustaining, Corporate and Institutional Members

Book Reviews (BRMS)(External)

• Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us

• Extreme Physics: Properties and Behavior of Matter at Extreme Conditions

• How Do You Find an Exoplanet

• An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere