Issues

Does everyone head for the corridors when you rise to read your paper? If so, the Secretary of the Physical Society wishes to have a word with you.

Although a knowledge of the dimensions and volumes of living cells is fundamental to a proper understanding of biological processes, science has provided no means for their accurate measurement. Physicists, whose specialty is the measuring of small things, might provide a real contribution, the author suggests, by applying their techniques and skills to the problem.

The following article is the text of an address given by Commissioner Smyth in Cleveland on December 28, 1950 at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A Report from Washington

Proceedings of the First National Pollution Symposium; Proceedings of the Second Annual Northern California Research Conference; American FIAT Review of German Science; A Survey Report on Basic Problems of Underwater Acoustics Research.

Congress considers manpower problem

Powell honored at Stockholm ceremonies

The Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology; Instrument Analysis

GE opens three; SRI in Mexico

Du Pont; Armour Research Foundation; Bryn Mawr; AEC fellowships; MIT Development Program

Society of Rheology meets In New York

Fifth National Convention

On lattice imperfections

American Physical Society; British Physical Society.