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After a decade in which their resources and independence have been whittled away, British universities have uttered a cautious act of defiance. The government will be foolish if it tries to bring them to heel.
Few people have had such wide and deep influence as Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. Here E. L. Feinberg reflects on Sakharov's life and work. On page 13 Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii recounts the circumstances of a first encounter with 'a man to remember', and on page 14 Valery Soyfer tel Is of Sakharov's battle against lysenkoism.
With over 800 exhibitors, next week's Pittsburgh Conference in New York will unveil the latest and the best in spectroscopic and analytical instrumentation: an electrophoretic light-scatteringspectrophotometer, a biocompatible HPLC system and much more.
