APS—Bell Labs Award

Bell Telephone Laboratories and the American Physical Society have established the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize, consisting of an annual prize of $1000 to be awarded by the Society to a person adjudged to have made a most important contribution to the advancement of knowledge in solid state physics within the five years immediately preceding the award. Endowed by a trust fund of $50,000 provided by Bell Labs, the prize is named in honor of the Laboratories' former President, now Board Chairman, who is to retire on September 1 after 38 years' service in scientific and administrative work for the Bell System.