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July 1951

Volume 4, Issue 7

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Alphabet soup

Mark W. Zemansky
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Physics in Australia

L. G. H. Huxley
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When Oliphant and Titterton and a few other physicists known to their colleagues in the U.S. went awaltzing with Matilda at the other end of the world they did not vanish into oblivion. Australian physics, as the following article shows, is concisely organized, well‐supported, and in a state of vigorous growth.

New light on the origin of cosmic rays

Arthur Beiser
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Cosmic radiation striking the earth is thought by some to come from the depths of outer space and by others to originate in the sun. The present article describes a theory in which both ideas may in part prove valid.

The NRC Division of International Relations

Dwight E. Gray
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National Academy of Sciences

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Annual Meeting in Washington

Frequency Control

E. W. Johnson
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Signal Corps sponsors symposium

The American Physical Society

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Annual Spring Meeting held in Washington

Radio–Electronics

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IRE convention draws 23,000

High Speed Photography

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Featured at SMPTE meeting

Exploration Geophysicists

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Joint Meeting held in St. Louis

Meetings to be Held

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Applied Mathematics Symposium; World Chemical Conclave; A Conference on Auroral Physics.
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Supersonic Aerodynamics, A Theoretical Introduction and Foundations of Aerodynamics

Edward R. C. Miles, A. M. Kuethe, J. D. Schetzer, and James Bernard Kelley, Reviewer
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Perturbation Methods in the Quantum Mechanics of n‐Electron Systems

E. M. Corson and Irving Kaplan, Reviewer
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Cloud Physics

D. W. Perrie and Vincent J. Schaefer, Reviewer
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Briefly Noted

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Fluid dynamics; annual Canadian NRC report; Proceedings of the 1950 Alaskan Science Conference; American stand for electrical indicating instruments; Progress in nuclear physics; Photons and electrons.

Books Received

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We Hear That…

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Arnold Sommerfeld

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Stalin Prize

C. T. Lane
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Student Exchange

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Expansion of program urged

Ford Foundation Grants

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To bring scholars to the U.S.

New Research Foundation

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At Lowell Textile Institute

Summer Offerings

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Statistics seminar at Connecticut; Photoelasticity at MIT.

Physics Education

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Further enrollment drop expected

New Laboratories

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At the University of Chicago; Houston's Magnetic Observatory.

Grants and Awards

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AEC Fellowships; Essay contest announced.

New Quarterly

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Pacific Journal of Mathematics
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The New Style Manual

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Calendar of Events

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