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One of the inventors of an intense, completely polarized muon beam that every ‘meson factory’ now provides discusses the bittersweet history of the invention and some of the recent experiments that it made possible.

Leading the 35 000‐member organization in new directions, representing the physics community and continuing to make a personal contribution to the advance of knowledge, makes for an exciting but busy year.

This annual report reviews a period that saw continued growth for the Institute as well as an endorsement of its role and its governance by its Member Societies

A device of little promise, originally developed in 1916 as an alternative to grid control in vacuum tubes, became in 1940 the key to the successful development of radar by the Allied forces during the Second World War.