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Living and working at Harwell
The following observations are those of an American who has spent the past year in England as a visiting physicist in the laboratories of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell). An undertaking of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, the AERE is located near the village of Harwell in rural Berkshire, fifteen miles south of Oxford and fifty‐five miles west of London. The author, who returned to the United States in September, is a senior physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory.
The Mössbauer effect: A conference report
The authors of the following summary are both at the University of Illinois at Urbana. David S. Lieberman is a member of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy and Edgar Lüscher is in the University's Department of Physics and Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Technical reports I have known…and probably written
This article is based on a paper (“The Technical and Scientific Report”) presented at the Third Annual Institute in Technical and Industrial Communications, Colorado State University, July 11–15, 1960. The author is program director in the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation.
A decennial look at NSF's research grants program in physics
The National Science Foundation was established by an Act of Congress in May 1950, making 1960 an anniversary year. This article gives a brief review of one of its programs with emphasis on the direction in which it is moving. The author is program director for physics at the National Science Foundation and has been with the program since 1952.