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123.  Review of Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos (J. Bernstein), American Scientist, 82, 395 (1994).

126.  Biography of William J. Thompson, in Directory of American Scholars, published by Gale Press (1994, 2001).

132.  "From Inner Space to Outer Space," reviews of CD-ROMs A.D.A.M.; The Inside Story and Digital Humans (C. Riegger-Krugh and W. J. Thompson), The Planets (W. J. Thompson), The Ultimate Einstein (W. J. Thompson), and Star Trek; A Final Unity (B. Neal and W. J. Thompson), and the book The Physics of Star Trek by L. Krauss, (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 84, 593-598 (1996).

134.  Book review BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today by J. Baldwin (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 84, 615 (1996).

135.  Book review The Collected Works of P.A. M. Dirac ed. by R. H. Dalitz (L. Dolan and W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 85, 76 (1997).

138.  Book review Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun ed. by D. L. Goodstein and J. R. Goodstein (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 85, 184-185 (1997).

140.  Book review Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 85, 286-287 (1997).

142.  Software review of two CD-ROMs "Leonardo in Hyperspace: CD-ROM Reviews" (L. S. Mejia and W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 85, 562-563 (1997).

143.  Book review HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality ed. by David G. Stork (W. J. Thompson) American Scientist, 85, 578-579 (1997).

151.  Book nanoview of Newton and Gravity and Hawking and Black Holes, both by Paul Strathern (W. J. Thompson), American Scientist, 86, 575 (1998).

153.  Book reviews of An Imaginary Tale; the Story of  I,  by Paul Nahin, and Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor (W. J. Thompson), American Scientist, 86, 584 (1998).

155.  American Scientist book  nanoviews by W. J. Thompson in 1999 (87): January/February issue, p.79; The Invisible Computer (D. Norman) and The Language of Mathematics (K. Devlin). March/April issue, p.176; Cosmic Bullets (R. Clay and B. Dawson), The River of Time (I. D. Novikov), Ripples on a Cosmic Sea (D. Blair, G. McNamara), The Elegant Universe (B. Greene). May/June issue, p.268; Kea, Bird of Paradox (J. Diamond and A. B. Bond), p.271; String Theory, Vols. I and II (J. Polchinksi), reviewed with P. H. Frampton. July/August issue, p.369;Turing and the Computer and Einstein and Relativity (both by Paul Strathern), Relativity and its Roots (B. Hoffmann), The French Mathematician (T. Petsinis). November/December issue, p.561; Tutira (H. Guthrie-Smith). 

157.   American Scientist book nanoviews by W. J. Thompson in 2000 (88): January/February issue, p.79;  Zero: Biography of a Number (C. Seife) and A Natural History of Zero (R. Kaplan). May/June issue, p.269; Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History (A. Waugh) and The Birth of Time (J. Gribbin). 

159.   Book reviews of The Random Walks of George Polya by Gerald L. Alexanderson, and Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam by Edward J. Barbeau (W. J. Thompson), American Scientist, 88, 465-466 (2000).

162.   American Scientist book nanoviews by W. J. Thompson in 2001 (89): March/April issue, p.174; Boltzmann’s  Atom (D. Lindley). May/June issue, p.269, The Wizard of Quarks (R. Gilmore).

164.   Book reviews of Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Tai L. Chow, and Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers by C. D. Cantrell (W. J. Thompson), American Scientist, 89, 284 (2001).