The last two years have seen remarkable progress toward understanding the electronic properties of metals, but the result of this progress illustrates the dictum of Veblen that “the outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where one question grew before”.

1.
The “Little Geneva” Conference, a report of which has been given by
Roland W.
Schmitt
and
Paul M.
Marcus
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Phys. Today
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(
7
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1959
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