Physics history project

Charles Weiner, a historian of science and technology, who was formerly at the Case Institute of Technology, has assumed the post of director of the American Institute of Physics Project on the History of Recent Physics in the United States. He succeeds W. James King, who has accepted an appointment as lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley. Dr. King, who was formerly a curator at the Museum of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution, headed the Project during the first three years of its existence.