Issues
Articles
NSF one year later…
Despite the limited budget under which the National Science Foundation must operate, its first year has proved to be productive.
A survey of Alaskan peaks
Last April the author with Terris Moore, president of the University of Alaska, conducted a survey of various mountain peaks in the territory of Alaska in an effort to determine the feasibility of establishing high altitude cosmic‐ray stations in the far north.
Books
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. The Classical Theories
Briefly Noted
The Atmospherics of the Earth and Planets; The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer; Martian Life; Astronomical Slides; EDSAC Programming.
News and Views
Two New Computers
At Princeton and Los Alamos
Brookhaven Breaks a Record
Cosmotron Passes Two Billion Volt Mark
The Oak Ridge Swimming Pool
Low Power, Low Cost Research Reactor
Radiation Engineering
Laboratory Established at Stanford
Canadian Laboratory Expansion
Growth of Research Noted by NRC
Political Resonance
A Theory and a Passport are Denied
Exchange of Instruments
Unesco Sponsors Inspection Scheme
Science Popularization
Kalinga Prize Awarded to de Broglie
Miscellany
International; Science and Government; Education.
Education
Celanese Corporation of America; The Radio Corporation of America; Of the more than.
Obituaries
We Hear That
Meetings
Operations Research Society
Morse Elected President of New Group
Acoustical Society
Spring Meeting in New York
Atomic Energy in Agriculture
Fourth Oak Ridge Summer Symposium
Venezuelan Geophysicists
Form New Society at Caracas