Issues

A special session on high‐energy physics was held during the Washington meeting, last April, of the American Physical Society. The session consisted of three invited papers and a roundtable discussion which are presented on the following pages. Milton White, professor of physics at Princeton University and director of the Princeton‐Pennsylvania Accelerator, arranged the session. Frederick Seitz, professor of physics at the University of Illinois and president of the National Academy of Sciences, was chairman.

The special session on high‐energy physics at the APS Washington meeting concluded with the following roundtable discussion. Opening statements from each panelist precede questions and comments from the audience. Frederick Seitz served as moderator.