Issues

Chipping away at the barrier between the senses and the physical world are those scientists whose research is in psychophysics. Here the author traces what happens to a sound wave in the ear until it reaches the auditory nerve endings.

Food processing, and the controls which make the industry possible, have come to depend more and more upon the physicist's art.

Where there's fire there's smoke. How chimneys remove it is told in this article.

Yukawa and Giauque honored

Harrison, Meggers honored

International laboratories proposed

Offered by Rockefeller Foundation and RCA; Offered by General Electric.

Atomic energy education; Tracer courses announced

Radio Propagation Laboratory; CENCO; Tin Research Institute; New Gulf Laboratory.

Bartol Van de Graaff; Harvard's Mark III; Iowa Synchrotron.

Aid to research; IES Gold Medal; Distinguished Service Award; Natural Science Fellowships; Royal Societies; Bleininger Memorial Award; Duddell Medal; Elected associate; John Price Wetherill Medal; Howard N. Potts Medals; Honored by Society of Motion Picture Engineers; RCA Fellowships.