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The following article is based on the first of six invited papers presented during the symposium on contemporary physics which keynoted the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Institute of Physics in Chicago last October. An audience of three thousand assembled in the Chicago Civic Opera House to hear the addresses, four of which have appeared in recent issues of this journal.

The fact that a scientist spends a good deal of his time in studies from which he tries to exclude moral judgments, the author of this article points out, does not mean that the scientist and his activity will not be subject to moral judgment.

The author, as a 1951 Fulbright research scholar, spent several months in India where he worked in collaboration with Professor P. S. Gill of the University of Aligarh, who is also director of the recently established cosmic ray laboratory at Gulmarg.

Semi‐Conducting Materials, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Conference Proceedings; Table of Dielectric Constants of Pure Liquids; Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Volume 79, No. 4

Need for Work on Unsolved Problems Noted

To Appear in Nuclear Science Abstracts

Progress in Planning Reported from Paris

New Members Elected

Van Vleck and Webb are New Presidents

Metropolitan Group Votes to Discontinue

Huggins Chairman of High‐Polymer Group

New Technical Committee Formed

29 Percent are Physicists

ORINS Summer Courses

Case Summer School for Physics Teachers

Philips to hold Spring Session

AAAS Conference in Philadelphia

West Coast Section Meets at Berkeley

Spring Meeting in New York

Symposium in April

Symposium at Western Reserve

With Colloquium of College Physicists