New Housing for the AIP

THE American Institute of Physics needs more A working space. The building at 57 East 55th Street, purchased with the contributions of physicists in 1943, has now become crowded and is inadequate for the future. The reasons for this unexpectedly rapid obsolescence may be found in the record of the last ten fast‐moving years. What has happened to the Institute merely reflects what has happened to physics, and this in turn is tied up with what has happened to the world in these ten years. Perhaps this general comment is convincing enough, but specific measures of the Institute's altered situation are at hand.