Popular articles and talks: solar neutrinos, Hubble Space Telescope, prioritizing science, and quasars

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Chemical Controversy at the Solar Surface, Physics World, 18, No. 2, 26 (2005)

Remarks on receiving the Dan David Prize in cosmology and astronomy 5/18/2003.     pdf file   MS Word document   

Summary of lecture given following receipt of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 11/14/03.     pdf file   MS Word document

Remarks made on receiving the Enrico Fermi Award 10/22/03.
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Interview with John Bahcall in Candid Science IV, Conversations with Famous Physicists, authors Magdolna Hargittai and István Hargittai (Imperial College Press 2004), pp. 232-259.
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solar neutrinos

• history of the solar neutrino problem
• popular accounts of where we stand with solar neutrinos
• Ray Davis: the scientist and the man
• SNO and the missing neutrinos
• Two Secrets: Commencement Address, Berkeley, 2001
• next generation solar neutrino experiments
• Solar Neutrino Detectors by Wick Haxton (poster)

Hubble Space Telescope

• Article in the Internation Space Review   
• Los Angeles Times Article (February 23, 2005)   
• The Report on the Future of the HST (August 2003)
• The Birth of the Snapshot Programs
• Scientific American (1982)
• Testimony before U.S. Congress: 1977 and 1990
• Lyman Spitzer Jr.

prioritizing science

• Prioritizing scientific initiatives,    Science Magazine (1991)
• Prioritizing science: a story of the Decade Survey for the 1990s (1998)
• Space Interferometry: The Next Frontier (1998)

sundry topics

• Remarks at the Inaugural Press Conference for the Lyman Spitzer Space Telescope (12/18/03)
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• Tribute to Marshall Rosenbluth at Memorial Session 11/14/2003
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• The Report on the Future of the HST (August 2003)
• WMAP Press Conference (2/11/03)
• Mine lab status at critical juncture
• The Big Bang is bang on
• The optical identification of Hercules X-1
• H₀
• The Birth of Helioseismology
• Distantly Detecting Deuterium

quasars

• McGraw Hill 1971
• Twenty nearby luminous quasars
• What causes a quasar?

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