New JCP Editor

AFTER having served for more than six years as editor of the Institute's Journal of Chemical Physics, Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr., has found it necessary to resign that post because of the pressure of new responsibilities he has assumed at the University of Chicago. His successor as editor of the publication is J. W. Stout, also professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, who served as an associate editor of the Journal during the period 1954–56. A fellow of the American Physical Society, Prof. Stout received his doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California in 1937. He was a group leader in the Manhattan District's Los Alamos laboratory during World War II and has been associated with the University of Chicago since that time. His own work has been concerned primarily with low‐temperature research and with problems in thermodynamics, calorimetry, and in paramagnetism and antiferromagnetism.