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Select this Article		“Lab” G. P. Harnwell



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Select this Article		Physics in France Victor F. Weisskopf



	+ -	Show Topic As seen through the eyes of a European physicist who came to America to live and work and who, as a Fulbright Fellow, has spent the past year as a visiting lecturer in France.

Select this Article		Acoustics Harvey Fletcher



	+ -	Show Topic Six invited papers were presented during the major symposium of last October's meeting of the AIP and its Member Societies, of which this is the second to be printed in Physics Today. Articles based on talks by Drs. Condon, Fermi, Slater, and I Land will appear in later issues.

Select this Article		Theoretical physics in the Alps Bryce Seligman DeWitt



	+ -	Show Topic A unique summer school for students of theoretical physics opened its doors for the first time last summer high in the French Alps. The author, one of the participants, is at present at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay.

Select this Article		Office of Technical Services of the Department of Commerce Dwight E. Gray



	+ -	Show Topic The Commerce Department is obliged by law to accumulate technical information of all sorts and to make it available to the public. Its Office of Technical Services has been assigned these responsibilities. A brief picture of the OTS in action is provided in the following article.

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Select this Article		The Principles of Cloud Chamber Technique J. G. Wilson and S. Neddermeyer, Reviewer



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	+ -	Show Topic In natural sciences and electronics

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	+ -	Show Topic India's Gulmarg Observatory

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