Visiting Foreign Staff Project (V.F.S.P.) at Temple University Available to Purchase

We describe the National Science Foundation supported V.F.S.P. for institutes for secondary school teachers of science and mathematics, conducted for the first time in the summer of 1959. The need for the program stems both from the international nature of science itself and from the lag in our present secondary school science education. It is emphasized that lectures on recent advances in physics can be made more effective by organized programs such as the V.F.S.P. A briefing session is most important. Highlights of the visits' evaluation are followed by an introduction to the twelve papers constituting the heart of the project report. The fields of physics included are thermodynamics and molecular physics, low and high energy nuclear physics, thermonuclear physics, cosmic rays, three topics in solid state physics and metallurgical physics.