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The Eleventh Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference was held at the Barbizon‐Plaza Hotel, New York City, from Wednesday, October 22 through Saturday, October 25, 1958. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Division of Electron Physics of the American Physical Society and by the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. On Thursday, October 23, sessions were held at the Laboratories' Murray Hill location.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060801

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

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For many years the college faculty has expressed a dissatisfaction with the scholastic background of college students. An unusual opportunity is presented to physicists now to help improve the science education of the youth of this country. This new opportunity is embodied in Title III of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Our national security is so dependent on the upgrading of science education that it is imperative to respond fully to the provisions of this Act.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060802

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

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An important event on the science calendar of Kansas City, Missouri, occurred last fall when the International Conference on Small‐Angle X‐Ray Scattering by Metals was held at the Midwest Research Institute on September 23–25, 1958. It was the first major scientific conference to be held in Kansas City, and it resulted, indirectly, from the intense interest of Kansas City's civic leaders in having their city recognized as a scientific center as well as for its steaks.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060803

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

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The topic I shall discuss is mathematics and rheology and I shall, of course, concentrate on those aspects of mathematical rheology in which I have been interested. Many of you will no doubt recall that Sir Geoffrey Taylor chose a similar topic as the subject for his Presidential Address to the International Conference on Rheology held at Oxford in 1953. In it he advanced what seemed to me a rather pessimistic appraisal of the role of mathematics in rheology. I shall try to be more optimistic. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the Oxford conference myself and merely read Sir Geoffrey's talk in the proceedings of the conference. I conjecture from its pessimistic note that Sir Geoffrey must have been talking before dinner. I like to think that if he had been talking after dinner, he too would have been more optimistic. In his preprandial pessimism he took the view that the mathematician must at best have the role of a handmaiden to the experimental rheologist, solving—or more often failing to solve—particular little problems that are posed. I would much rather regard his role as one of equal responsibility with the experimental rheologist for the advance of the subject—at times running ahead of the experimenter and determining the pattern of progress, at other times lagging behind.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060804

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

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AT its meeting in New York City on April 4, 1959, the Board of Governors of the American Institute of Physics named Ralph A. Sawyer, dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan, as chairman of the Board. Dean Sawyer succeeds Frederick Seitz, professor of physics at the University of Illinois, who has served as chairman for the past five years. The entire period under the leadership of Prof. Seitz, from March 1954 until his retirement last month, was one of constantly increasing activity and unprecedented growth for the Institute and consequently also a period in which the Governing Board, its Executive Committee, and especially its hard‐working chairman were faced with extremely heavy responsibilities.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060805

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

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ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060809

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060810

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060811

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060814

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060816

出版商:AIP    

年代:1959

数据来源: AIP