Seminar for Science Writers

FUNDAMENTAL concepts in plasma physics were reviewed on May 24 at a seminar designed to provide background information for the benefit of science writers from the popular press. Held at the headquarters of the American Institute of Physics in New York City, the seminar was conducted by the AIP in cooperation with the National Association of Science Writers. The program included a series of survey papers by William P. Allis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewis Branscomb of the National Bureau of Standards. Melvin B. Gottlieb of Princeton University's Project Matterhorn, Henry Hurwitz, Jr., of the General Electric Research Laboratory, and Alan C. Kolb of the Naval Research Laboratory. Arthur Kantrowitz, director of the Avco‐Everett Research Laboratory, presided.