Issues

The following article is based on an invited paper in cryogenics presented before the American Physical Society at its meeting in Washington, D.C. last spring. The author, who enjoys an international reputation as a low‐temperature physicist, is a member of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory at the University of Leiden.

Three of the six major laboratories comprising the research facilities of the Geophysics Research Directorate of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Air Research and Development Command, are described here. A subsequent article will cover the other three laboratories.

This is the second of two articles prepared in the Department of Labor and dealing with manpower in physics. The first, “Earnings of Physicists, 1951”, appeared in the November 1952 issue of Physics Today.

A Letter to the Editor

Annual Report Stresses Need for Funds; Research, Fellowships, and Manpower.

Approved by Physical Society Council

Report Criticizes Civil Defense

ICSU Committee Urges Support for Research

V. Bush, on Basic and Applied Research

Semiconductors and Transistors

San Diego Meeting Attracts 350

Brookhaven Conference Reported

On Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

URSI‐IRE Spring Meeting

Annual Symposium in Pasadena

International Congress in Paris