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January 1967

Volume 20, Issue 1

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Color science and color photography

David L. MacAdam
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For high‐fidelity reproduction of color, films and television would use principles defined by Maxwell and elaborated by Ives. Color scientists are coming back to old ideas that have been neglected for many years.

Physics in Central America

John H. Wray
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The physics community of Central America is largely concentrated in the universities of the five countries where main efforts are on development of training programs for secondary teachers and the teaching of physics to the citizens. Heavy research efforts await the growth of more numerous faculties and a larger physics public in the region.

Gravitational theory and observation

Robert H. Dicke
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Fifty years after Einstein formulated general relativity, an expermentalist looks at the observational support for this theory. He finds that the evidence is at least as good for a scalar‐tensor theory of gravitation.

Bad luck in attempts to make scientific discoveries

C. J. Gorter and Henry A. Boorse
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People who get prizes are usually expected to tell the assembled dinner guests about the research that won them recognition. The recipient of the Fifth Fritz London Award chose instead to describe how he had just missed making a number of very important discoveries.

January in New York: APS and AAPT meet

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10,000 people are expected to attend this annual event. Next year the “New York” meeting will be held in Chicago.
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Who made the baseball?

John R. Hiskes
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Prolongation of life

Victor E. Grob and Ephraim Fischbach
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Reviewer and author anonymity

W. Dixon Ward and S. A. Goudsmit
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A correction

C. Courtoy
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Oxford Laboratory Mixes Physics and Archeology

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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Russians See Element 102, Call it Joliot‐curium

Gloria B. Lubkin
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MURA Builds Electron‐Positron Storage Ring

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Government Studies Night Light Satellite

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Gas and Solid‐State Lasers Operate in the Ultraviolet

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Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy

Marie Boas Hall and R. Bruce Lindsay, Reviewer
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume 2: In Honor of Philipp Frank

Robert S. Cohen, Editor, Mark W. Wartofsky, Editor, and Peter Caws, Reviewer
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Berkeley Physics Course. Volume 1, Mechanics

Charles Kittel, Walter D. Knight, Malvin A. Ruderman, and R. Bruce Lindsay, Reviewer
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Theory of Cyclic Accelerators

A. A. Kolomensky, A. N. Lebedev, M. Barbier, Translator, and Denis Keefe, Reviewer
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Theory of Thermally Induced Gas Phase Reactions

E. E. Nikitin and Kurt E. Shuler, Reviewer
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Solar Radio Astronomy

Mukul R. Kundu and H. J. Hagger, Reviewer
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Transistors: Principles and Applications

R. G. Hibberd and H. J. Hagger, Reviewer
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Modern Physics for Engineers

Otto Oldenberg and Norman C. Rasmussen
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Introduction to Matrices and Linear Transformations

Daniel T. Finkbeiner, II and Dagmar Henney, Reviewer
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A Collection of Problems in Atomic and Nuclear Physics

I. Ye. Irodov, Steven Dedijer, Translator, and L. Marton, Reviewer
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Problems in Undergraduate Phyiscs. Vol. 2, Electricity and Magnetism

S. P. Strelkov, I. A. El'tsin, S. E. Khaikin, D. E. Brown, Translator, D. ter Haar, Editor, and Robert L. Weber, Reviewer
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Problems in Undergraduate Physics. Vol. 4, Molecular Physics, Thermodynamics, Atomic and Nuclear Physics

V. L. Ginzburg, D. E. Brown, Translator, D. ter Haar, Editor, and Robert L. Weber, Reviewer
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Functional Analysis

Kosaku Yosida and J. G. Taylor, Reviewer
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The Monte Carlo Method: The Method of Statistical Trials

Yu. A. Schreider, Editor, G. J. Tee, Translator, and Alan G. Henney, Reviewer
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A Textbook of Magnetohydrodynamics

J. A. Shercliff and J. Gillis, Reviewer
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Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Engineering

W. F. Ames and J. Gillis, Reviewer
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Table of Laplace Transforms

G. E. Roberts, H. Kaufman, and Jacques E. Romain, Reviewer
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Introduction to Nuclear Physics

Harold A. Enge and James O'Connell, Reviewer
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Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes

Athanasios Papoulis and Joseph G. Hoffman, Reviewer
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Advances in Radiation Biology, Vol. 2

L. G. Augenstein, Editor, R. Mason, Editor, M. R. Zelle, Editor, and Joseph G. Hoffman, Reviewer
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Briefly Noted

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New Books

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We Hear That

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Spectroscopy Society Award Given to Ralph A. Sawyer

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Optical Society Awards Wald 1966 Ives Medal

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Gordon Receives Gold Medal for Ionospheric Studies

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William F. Meggers Dies; Was World‐Famous Spectroscopist

George R. Harrison
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John Dewdney; Apparatus Designer

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Science and the New Copyright Revision

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Resonances

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NSF Data Show Levelling Off of Federal Support

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Delegates Bolster IUPAP Leadership and Budget

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APS Membership Approves All Changes in its Constitution

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Federal Science Newspaper Seeks Private Publisher

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Zemansky Named AAPT Executive Secretary

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AIP Issues Source Book on Physics Manpower

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A Blue (Ultraviolet) Poem

Dietrick E. Thomsen
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Plasma Man Saves The Power Station

Dietrick E. Thomsen
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Calendar

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Two Fables for Physicists

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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