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“The CSIRO? I know of them. They do a lot of radio astronomy”, said the custom's agent who examined my baggage. “The CSIRO? They certainly have shown that research pays, especially in the way in which they have reduced the rabbit pest”, said a retired business man. “Yes, we all know about the CSIRO. Wonderful work they have done”, said the owner of a sheep ranch. Remarks similar to these soon assured me that the Australian people nearly were as familiar with the initials “CSIRO”, as with the words “kangaroo” and “tennis” and that they had been convinced of the value of basic research.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060292

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

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Two years ago, the American Association of Physics Teachers appointed a Committee on Apparatus for Educational Institutions to study the serious shortage of good teaching apparatus in this country. The committee has explored many of the problems related to improving the supply of apparatus for the teaching of physics. The committee feels that it can do much more good if the majority of those interested in physics realize the type of problems it is concerning itself with and for that reason it is attempting to draw the attention of those interested to these problems. The members of the committee are: Sanborn C. Brown, Chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Vernet E. Eaton, Wesleyan University; Gerald Holton, Harvard University; and William C. Kelly, University of Pittsburgh.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060293

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

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The newly formed Physical Science Study Committee, directed by Jerrold R. Zacharias, Elbert P. Little, and Francis L. Friedman, held its first major planning conference on December 10, 11, and 12, 1956, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The committee met to discuss and plan improved and modernized courses in physical science for secondary schools, under a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. In attendance were forty‐eight committee members, representing more than a dozen universities, government agencies, and commercial laboratories.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060294

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

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The Commission for Symbols, Units, and Nomenclature (SUN Commission) met in Paris (March 20–23, 1956) in the Institut d'Optique. All the members of the Commission were present, namely: H. H. Nielsen (USA, president), E. A. Guggenheim (Great Britain), E. Perucca (Italy), A. Perard (France), J. Rossel (Switzerland), E. Rudberg (Sweden), U. Stille (West Germany), and J. de Boer (Netherlands, secretary).

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060295

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

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This is the last meeting at which George Braxton Pegram is the Treasurer of the American Physical Society. This Society as we know it is largely his own creation. When he entered the Society fifty‐eight years ago at its second meeting, it had fewer than one hundred members. When he was first elected Treasurer thirty‐eight years ago, the Society was still less than one‐tenth as large as it is today. The volume of its publications was an even smaller fraction of their present volume, and nobody could have dared to say that ourPhysical Reviewis the most important journal of physics in the world, a claim that now might not appear unreasonable. Its meetings were so small that simultaneous sessions were unknown; now there are six or seven at a time. For all of these thirty‐eight years George Pegram has served the Society without a break, by far the longest term of service ever accorded to us by anyone. Years of prosperity and depression, years of deflation and inflation, and now for a decade of unremitting expansion of physics and of the Society,—through all this time George Pegram has maintained the finances of the Society, and only twice in all this time have the vicissitudes of the years required an appeal for brief and transient help to surmount a temporary crisis. When Pegram began to be Treasurer he was at an age when most men are working full time in their own profession, and he himself, according to all that we hear, was working half again as hard as most men. He has continued to be Treasurer up to an age when most men want nothing but rest and ease, and when his own physician has long been urging him to relax and quit. And yet, immense as has been his service as Treasurer, it is but a small part of his total service. For longer than most of us can remember George Pegram has been the guide and the elder statesman of the Society, always concerning himself with everything that concerned the Society, always foresighted and always vigilant. Those who will be officers hereafter will feel like children who have lost the guidance of the wise and kindly father on whom they have always relied to lead them, to advise them, to keep them out of trouble, and to help them out of such troubles as they incurred on their own. Of course we count on the continuance of his good counsel. The American Physical Society will never be able to measure what it owes to George Braxton Pegram. He has been the Society incarnate. There will never be another like him.

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DOI:10.1063/1.3060296

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060297

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060298

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060299

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060301

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060303

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP