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The following addresses were presented at the International Conference on the Quantum Interactions of the Free Electron, held April 23–25, 1956, at the University of Maryland.

Sir George P. Thomson, FRS (above), is Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England. The son of Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir George shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in physics with C. J. Davisson for the discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals. The present paper is the text of his after‐dinner address at the Electron Physics Conference Banquet.

The address by Dr. Darrow, a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Secretary of the American Physical Society, was also an after‐dinner talk at the Electron Physics Conference Banquet.

A summary report by Harold Mendlowitz, National Bureau of Standards