Issues

Space ships are not around the corner. The chief of the applied physics division of the jet propulsion laboratory at the California Institute of Technology treats here current problems in conventional rocketry and the possibilities of powering rockets with nuclear energy. The conclusions, he finds, are somewhat “melancholy.”

Students study five months of the year and hold down fulltime jobs for another five months in the cooperative education plan at Antioch College. How this works out for physics students is described by a faculty member who finds that for students to work while learning helps them learn by working.

“Recent advances in quantum electrodynamics are essentially an advance in understanding and formalism,” writes Dr. Stern, “rather than an advance in the region of applicability of quantum electrodynamics.”

APS at Cleveland

Conference on high frequency measurements

Argonne announces metal displacement therapy

University of Illinois; Naval Ordnance Laboratory.

Instrument Society of America; Society for Applied Spectroscopy; Tracers; Ionospheric research; Digital computers; Contemporary physics.

Division of Solid State Physics; Sigma Pi Sigma; Committee on Nuclear Science.

Washington College; New Mexico A & M College.

GE announces awards