Issues

Responsibility for creating a national center concerned with the continued health and progress of American Science is vested to a large extent in the person of Alan T. Waterman. Some of the problems he must face are described below.

The search for reality, an ultimate goal for men in all ages, has led to a dichotomy of effort in which the empiricism of human experience and the empiricism depending on the properties and structure of matter itself play a dual and occasionally conflicting role.

In spite of their many spectacular works, the present article suggests, physicists should not rest too comfortably on their laurels. Physics is not the only field concerned with understanding nature.

Geophysical Studies in the Antarctic; Electronic Equipment Construction—New Objectives, New Techniques and New Components; Professional Opportunities in Mathematics; What you should know about Biological Warfare.

Will consider defense mobilization

To be studied at Columbia

New coupons issued

Translation project continued

New publication charge for letters

Mercury‐198 lamps available from NBS

Van de Graaff generator at Duke; Chicago's synchrocyclotron.

For Vatican Observatory spectrograph

Discussed at Atlantic City Meeting

Guggenheim Awards for 1951; Ives awarded Rumford Premium; Sigma Delta Epsilon; Stalin Prizes awarded.

Industrial use of fission products; New laboratory At Boulder; Aircraft nuclear reactor; 22% reduction in AEC injuries.

Academy‐Research Council Bulletin; Vacuum.

The fewer the colder

MIT course in modern communications; Interferometry lectures at Ft. Monmouth; Spectrography at Boston; Washington College courses.

Washington College Science Club

Second Conference held in Washington

APS Division of Electron Physics

Applied Mathematics Symposium; Gordon Research Conferences; AIEE meets in Toronto; Canadian Mathematical Congress; Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Particles; Abrasion and Wear Symposium at Delft; British Association meets in Scotland.