Reviews of topical problems

V.N. Pavlenko “Echo phenomena in plasmas” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 931–951 (1983)

A.N. Vasil’ev, Yu.P. Gaidukov “Electromagnetic excitation of sound in metals” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 952–973 (1983)

V.V. Pikalov, N.G. Preobrazhenskii “Computer-aided tomography and physical experiment” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 974–990 (1983)

From the current literature

L.B. Okun’ “The discovery of intermediate bosons” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 991–992 (1983)

I.M. Dremin “Interaction of protons at the highest accelerator energies” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 993–997 (1983)

V.A. Karmanov “Anomalous nuclear fragments” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 998–1005 (1983)

Meetings and conferences

V.S. Beskin, A.V. Gurevich, Ya.N. Istomin “Electrodynamics of the magnetosphere of pulsars” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1006–1007 (1983)

Yu.M. Kagan “Quantum diffusion in nonideal crystals” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1007–1009 (1983)

V.A. Mikheev “Quantum diffusion and localization of He³ atoms in solid He⁴” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1009–1011 (1983)

M.V. Vol’kenshtein “The essence of biological evolution” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1011–1012 (1983)

O.B. Ptitsyn “Physical principles of protein structures” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1012–1013 (1983)

A.A. Vazina “Liquid crystals and biological mobility” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1013–1015 (1983)

E.B. Aleksandrov, A.A. Ansel’m, Yu.V. Pavlov, R.M. Umarkhodzhaev “Limitations on the magnitude of the hypothetical fundamental long-range interaction between spins in an experiment with mercury nuclei” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1015–1016 (1983)

D.A. Kirzhnits, F.M. Pen’kov “Coulomb interaction of composite particles” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1016–1017 (1983)

M.M. Makarov, G.Z. Obrant, V.V. Sarantsev “Splitting of the deuteron by π-mesons with intermediate energies” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1017–1019 (1983)

Yu.R. Gismatullin, V.I. Ostroumov “Mechanism of proton emission from nuclei accompanying inelastic scattering of intermediate-energy π^- and K-mesons” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1019–1020 (1983)

Personalia

B.A. Arbuzov, Sh.Sh. Bashkirov, A.S. Borovik-Romanov, K.A. Valiev, S.V. Vonsovskii, V.L. Ginzburg, M.M. Zaripov, B.I. Kochelaev, A.M. Prokhorov, I.L. Fabelinskii “Semen Aleksandrovich Al’tshuler (Obituary)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1021–1022 (1983)

N.E. Alekseevskii, N.G. Basov, A.S. Borovik-Romanov, B.K. Vainshtein, S.V. Vonsovskii, P.L. Kapitsa, V.I. Spitsyn, V.F. Shamrai “Wlodzimerz Trzebiatowski (Obituary)” Sov. Phys. Usp. 26 1023–1024 (1983)