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June 1951

Volume 4, Issue 6

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Thinking in quantum terms

L. I. Schiff
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An interview with the director of the National Science Foundation

Dwight E. Gray
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Responsibility for creating a national center concerned with the continued health and progress of American Science is vested to a large extent in the person of Alan T. Waterman. Some of the problems he must face are described below.

Engineering and pure science

W. F. G. Swann
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The search for reality, an ultimate goal for men in all ages, has led to a dichotomy of effort in which the empiricism of human experience and the empiricism depending on the properties and structure of matter itself play a dual and occasionally conflicting role.

Physics and natural philosophy

John R. Van Wazer
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In spite of their many spectacular works, the present article suggests, physicists should not rest too comfortably on their laurels. Physics is not the only field concerned with understanding nature.
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High Frequency Measurements

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Second Conference held in Washington

Electron Emission Symposium

R. L. Sproull
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APS Division of Electron Physics

Meetings to be Held

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Applied Mathematics Symposium; Gordon Research Conferences; AIEE meets in Toronto; Canadian Mathematical Congress; Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Particles; Abrasion and Wear Symposium at Delft; British Association meets in Scotland.
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Radioactive Measurements With Nuclear Emulsions

Herman Yagoda and Joseph G. Hoffman, Reviewer
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De Re Metallica

Georgius Agricola and Louise Smoluchowski, Reviewer
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Briefly Noted

Thomas C. Poulter, Reviewer
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Geophysical Studies in the Antarctic; Electronic Equipment Construction—New Objectives, New Techniques and New Components; Professional Opportunities in Mathematics; What you should know about Biological Warfare.

Books Received

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We Hear That

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A. Wilmer Duff

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Takashi Nagai

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Robert B. Taft

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Crystals

Dimitry E. Olshevsky
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High Altitude Laboratories

Serge A. Korff
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The Anniversary Meeting

Henry A. Barton
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New Science Advisory Group

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Will consider defense mobilization

Academic Freedom

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To be studied at Columbia

UNESCO News

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New coupons issued

Mathematical Papers

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Translation project continued

Authors Note

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New publication charge for letters

Atomic Length Standards

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Mercury‐198 lamps available from NBS

Accelerators

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Van de Graaff generator at Duke; Chicago's synchrocyclotron.

Prisms, Lenses, Mirrors

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For Vatican Observatory spectrograph

Beryllium Poisoning

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Discussed at Atlantic City Meeting

Honors And Awards

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Guggenheim Awards for 1951; Ives awarded Rumford Premium; Sigma Delta Epsilon; Stalin Prizes awarded.

AEC News

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Industrial use of fission products; New laboratory At Boulder; Aircraft nuclear reactor; 22% reduction in AEC injuries.

New Journals

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Academy‐Research Council Bulletin; Vacuum.

clo Defined

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The fewer the colder

Summer Offerings

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MIT course in modern communications; Interferometry lectures at Ft. Monmouth; Spectrography at Boston; Washington College courses.

On The Campus

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Washington College Science Club
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Calendar of Events

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