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On Monday, October 21st, a ceremony was held to dedicate the new headquarters of the American Institute of Physics at 335 East 45th Street in New York City. Frederick Seitz, chairman of the Governing Board, formally presented the keys to the building to the Institute's director, Elmer Hutchisson, who responded with a brief review of the work of the Institute and plans for the future.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060155

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年代:1957

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A good many people contributed to the establishment of the American Institute of Physics. Some of the genesis took place before 1930 in the minds of Dr. Paul D. Foote and the members of a committee of the Physical Society of which he was Chairman. I can't begin to name all of those who were concerned, but I think everyone who had anything to do with starting the AIP recognizes that there were two men who played the principal original roles. One of these was Dr. Compton, and this occasion today memorializes the great contribution which he made. The other was Dean George B. Pegram. If Dr. Compton were with us now I am sure he would agree that we cannot possibly overstate Dean Pegram's part in the planning, forming, and developing of the Institute.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060156

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年代:1957

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My pleasure in taking part in these exercises, in which we dedicate the Karl Taylor Compton Board Room of the American Institute of Physics, is heightened by the opportunity it gives to look back once again over the years when Karl Compton was one of us, and among physicists, in human stature, the greatest. Though I do not think the old days were any better than today's, or even so good, it is pleasant to think back to the happy youthful years of American physics, when papers inThe Physical Reviewwere less likely to have as many as seven authors, and better yet, when they never failed to appear because of some secret classification. Those were the days when the name of K. T. Compton blazed high in the firmament of electronics.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060157

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

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A meeting of the American Physical Society in Boulder, Colorado, is an occasion that brings considerable pleasure to the physicists of the National Bureau of Standards. We value highly the long traditional association of the Society's Washington spring meeting with the Bureau. We naturally regret that the rate of growth of the Society over the past fifteen to twenty years has so completely out‐distanced the growth of the Bureau's facilities to accommodate meetings that almost all the Society's technical sessions now have to be held elsewhere. When the radio and cryogenic engineering branches of the Bureau were located here a few years ago, one of our major hopes was that the Bureau, in conjunction with the University of Colorado, would provide a sufficient nucleus of scientific interest that the larger professional societies could be induced to meet here occasionally with the magnificent natural attractions of the area offering only fringe benefits.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060158

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

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PROMPT dissemination of research results and other relevant information through the publishing of physics journals is the major activity of the Institute and is by far the most costly of its operations.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060161

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060162

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060165

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060167

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060170

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3060172

出版商:AIP    

年代:1957

数据来源: AIP