International Laboratories

Separate conferences to consider proposals for the establishment of an international computation laboratory and a European nuclear physics laboratory were held late last year in Paris, and it now appears likely that work on preliminary phases of both projects may soon be under way. Representatives of interested governments and agencies of the United Nations who attended the two meetings apparently were able to approach something very nearly approximating a concrete plan of action in each instance. Tentative plans have been formulated for financing the projects, good agreement has evidently been reached as to the general extent and composition of the laboratories, and in the case of the computation center, at least, a well‐defined convention establishing the project has been drafted and has been submitted to the governments involved for ratification.