Sun Commission Report: Document SUN 56‐7

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March 01 1957

Sun Commission Report: Document SUN 56‐7

The following report of the Commission for Symbols, Units, and Nomenclature of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics represents an extension of the Commission's report “Symbols and Units” (Doc. UIP 6) which was reproduced in the November 1956 issue of Physics Today. The present document is carried at the request of the SUN Commission in order that American physicists might be informed of its contents prior to the meeting of the US National Committee of IUPAP in May and the IUPAP General Assembly in September. It should be noted that publications of the American Institute of Physics continue to follow the usages indicated in the AIP Style Manual. Comments concerning this report should be sent to the chairman of the SUN Commission, Prof. H. H. Nielsen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Physics Today 10 (3), 30–34 (1957);

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The Commission for Symbols, Units, and Nomenclature (SUN Commission) met in Paris (March 20–23, 1956) in the Institut d'Optique. All the members of the Commission were present, namely: H. H. Nielsen (USA, president), E. A. Guggenheim (Great Britain), E. Perucca (Italy), A. Perard (France), J. Rossel (Switzerland), E. Rudberg (Sweden), U. Stille (West Germany), and J. de Boer (Netherlands, secretary).

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