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The President of the United States addressed the Centennial Convocation of the National Academy of Sciences on October 22, 1963, in Washington, D.C. His remarks on that occasion are reproduced below.

The following address by the President of the National Academy of Sciences was presented on October 3, 1963, as part of the program of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Corporate Associates of the American Institute of Physics at the Rockefeller Institute in New York

The Symposium on Biophysics reported in these pages was held in conjunction with the celebration on April 18, 1963, of the 25th anniversary of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society, which was organized on April 2, 1938, at a meeting held at Union College in Schenectady. A. G. Tweet, the author of the present report, is a solid‐state physicist who has been associated with General Electric since 1953.

A report on the Third International Conference on the Mössbauer Effect, held from September 4 through September 7 at Cornell University.

The Seventeenth Annual Frequency Control Symposium sponsored by the Solid State and Frequency Control Division of the US Army Electronics Research and Development Laboratories, Fort Monmouth, N.J., was held on April 27, 28, and 29, 1963, in Atlantic City, N.J. Over 550 people participated in this review of technical progress, including representatives from Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and the United States.