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Part I, History of the cyclotron
On May 1, 1959, in memory of the late Ernest Orlando Lawrence, two invited lectures on the history of the cyclotron were presented as part of the American Physical Society's annual spring meeting in Washington, D.C. The present article is based on Prof. Livingston's talk on that occasion. The second speaker was E. M. McMillan, whose illustrated account also appears in this issue beginning on p. 24.
Annual report of the Advisory Panel to the Applied Mathematics Division of NBS
The following report on the work of the Applied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards has been prepared by one of several advisory panels assembled by the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, and is based on discussions at the group's meeting earlier this year, supplemented by visits to NBS made by individual panel members.
