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Physicists in California
This article is based on an after‐dinner address delivered at the San Diego meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 14, 1952
Ionospheric and upper air research
Last month's issue of Physics Today contained an account of three of the six laboratories of the Geophysics Research Directorate of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center. The present article describes the other three laboratories.
Science and secrecy
The following remarks by Atomic Energy Commissioner Smyth are taken from an address delivered last December 15th at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in dedication of that laboratory's new proton accelerator, the Cosmotron.
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Industrial Research
Federal Survey Reported
Radiation Instruments
Growth of Industry Shown by AEC Survey
Support for Education
Advisory Council Established
APS Honors Shockley
Buckley Solid State Physics Prize
New Computer
Argonne's AVIDAC is Completed
New Physics Building
To be Constructed at Pennsylvania
National Science Foundation
Grants in Support of Science
Hot Fruit Flies
New Air Force Project
Audio Engineering
New Quarterly Journal Established
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Meetings
Reflecting Microscopes
Discussed at Meeting in Britain
Instrumentation
College‐Industry‐Government Conference
High‐Polymer Physics
Symposium at APS Meeting this Month
Panel on Electron Tubes
RDB Symposium at Rutgers
Nonlinear Circuit Analysis
International Symposium in New York
Semiconductor Theory
Lecture Series by Henisch
Radioisotopes
Industrial Management Symposium
Operations Research
New Society Meets in May
Ohio State Symposium
Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy
Symposium on Computers
At Minnesota in June
Radiation Research Society
Annual Meeting at Iowa City in June