Reviews of topical problems

V.A. Belyakov, V.E. Dmitrienko, V.P. Orlov “Optics of cholesteric liquid crystals” Sov. Phys. Usp. 22 64–88 (1979)

G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, V.M. Chechetkin “Nonequilibrium shells of neutron stars and their role in sustaining x-ray emission and nucleosynthesis” Sov. Phys. Usp. 22 89–108 (1979)

New instruments and measurement methods

V.B. Leonas “New methods in molecular beam studies” Sov. Phys. Usp. 22 109–115 (1979)

From the current literature

Ya.B. Fainberg, N.S. Khizhnyak “Heavy-particle acceleration by charge-density waves in vacuum and in plasma” Sov. Phys. Usp. 22 116–118 (1979)

Personalia

V.M. Galitskii, Ya.B. Zel’dovich, Ya.A. Smorodinskii, I.S. Shapiro “Al’fred Ivanovich Baz’ (Obituary)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 22 119–120 (1979)

Chronicle

A.S. Borovik-Romanov “Nobel Prize awarded to P. L. Kapitsa” Sov. Phys. Usp. 22 120–121 (1979)