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The letter from J E Gregory (Physics Bulletin July 1983 p264) has caused me to ponder on the question 'Why has 20th Century science been so successful, while politics has been so unsuccessful?'. Since 1895 (the discovery of x-rays) there has been a succession of remarkable scientific discoveries that have transformed the world.
In his letter in the July 1983 issue of Physics Bulletin (p264), Mr B F Bradley indicates that obtaining CEng status is an objective worth pursuing. At present through the CEI, and in the future through the Engineering Council, this is only possible when the applicant is a full member of a particular institute.
The numerous cris de coeurs from Dr T P P Hall, regarding the London and South Eastern Branch (Physics Bulletin June 1983 p248), might well have emanated from the chairman of a branch of a quite different professional institution in a quite different area. I wonder why the experiences of these two branches should be so similar.
Most professional institutions combine two functions: a concern for the profession, and the dissemination of information. The latter, sometimes called the 'learned society' aspect, of The Institute of Physics is accomplished by its publication of books and refereed journals, and by the great majority of its meetings.
Up to the end of August, Fulmer Research Institute received nearly 2.5m worth of new contracts and renewals in 1983. This is more than twice the contract amount received by the same month in any previous year and exceeds the highest total ever achieved in one year.
Flexibility for staff and research programmes, and more careful monitoring of research, are two of the recommendations put forward by a working party of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils in a recent report (The Support given by Research Councils for In-house and University Research ABRC). The working party, under the chairmanship of Mr J R S Morris (Brown and Root UK), was set up a year ago to look into the distribution of the research councils' resources in support of research in their own institutes, as well as in universities and elsewhere.
Increased support has come from the government recently for the field of computer aided design, manufacture and test equipment. In July a grant of 10m was announced for the CADCAM Awareness programme, which was first set up in October 1981 to raise the level of awareness in manufacturing industry of the benefits arising from the introduction of CADCAM technology.
The Institute of Physics will launch a new journal, Classical and Quantum Gravity, from early 1984. The journal will reflect current work in this active and growing field, and will serve as a forum for theoretical physicists, mathematicians and cosmologists working in all branches of the theory of space-time and gravitation, including, in particular, the theory and implications of quantum gravity.
We conduct our daily transactions and problem solving by transmitting, receiving and processing information. The new electronic age created for us communication and computing systems, to enable us to carry out our tasks more efficiently.
The Magnetism Group's biennial meeting on theoretical magnetism held at Oxford on 27 June, rather than concentrating its attention on one particular aspect of magnetism, presented a fascinating and eclectic view of current problems in the subject. It was distinguished by an outstanding talk by Professor R A Cowley on random fields and ordering in local moment systems and by a wide ranging overview of the local moment problem in certain metals by Professor V Heine.
The birth of liquid helium took place in Leiden some 75 years ago on 9 July 1908. After that initial liquefaction, by Kamerlingh Onnes, there followed three decades during which the liquid was employed chiefly in a subservient role, as a coolant for experiments on other materials at very low temperatures.
Newton and Fraunhofer used their eyes; Lyman, Fowler and Herzberg used photographic plates. Spectroscopists of the last quarter century have used photomultiplier tubes, lead sulphide cells, Golay cells and so forth.
Optical design is frequently described as a 'black art' but subscribers to this view would have been surprised by the open-handed attitude of the contributors to The Institute of Physics Optical Group meeting on 'Optical design' held at Imperial College, London on 5 May 1983. In full view of a large audience, five of the leading exponents of 'the art' cast light on a wide range of design achievements with a frankness which should have resulted in their expulsion from the Magic Circle.
A systematic search for fast radio pulsars using the 305 m Arecibo Observatory radio telescope has revealed the existence of a second millisecond pulsar, the first millisecond pulsar (PSR 1937 + 214) having been discovered over a year ago. The new pulsar, PSR 1953 + 29, has a pulse period of only 6.1 ms and a 120-day orbital period, and it is the principal member of a binary system.
Space science began in the early 1950s with the use of military rockets to carry experimental payloads above the earth's atmosphere to heights of 100 km and it came to full fruition in the 1960s with the launching of unmanned earth orbiting spacecraft. Following a description of the various fields of space science and an outline of the major achievements, I will describe the organisation and support of the subject in the USA, in Europe and the UK.
Alan Astbury describes the theoretical and experimental background to a recent successful set of collaborative experiments at CERN. The significance of the discovery of the W and Z bosons lies in the confirmation that the steps taken so far towards a grand unified theory of forces may well be on the right track.
This volume presents the invited papers given at a Europhysics study conference held in May 1981. It is composed of 20 contributions from many of the leading names in the field of heavy-ion nuclear physics.
Over the last decade or so, field theories have re-emerged as the principal theoretical tools for understanding the phenomena of elementary particle physics, and as a result many books on field theory have recently been published. This one deals exclusively with gauge field theories (all theories of current physical interest are of this type) and assumes that the reader has a background knowledge of conventional quantum field theory.
Although 'compounded from advanced texts, review articles, original papers, and particularly the proceedings of summer schools', this has been assembled masterfully into a book which is a pleasure to read, full of unusual insights and connections, and with a generous provision of exercises, their solutions, worked examples, references, specialised bibliographies, appendices and tables. All of subnuclear physics is covered, but with a proper bias towards the newest and most fashionable of topics such as quarks and leptons, grand unification, and proton instability.
During the last two decades, the development of lasers with high spectral brightness and continuously variable frequency has led to the invention of a wide range of nonlinear spectroscopic techniques. With these methods new high precision measurements in atomic, molecular and solid state physics, and of fundamental constants, have been made.
As the subtitle indicates, this book is not a standard text on general relativity, but is an extended account of ideas that Sachs has been concerned with over a number of years. These ideas are based on spinors and quaternion algebra, in terms of which the Dirac equation in a Riemannian space is written.
This book, written by five university research scientists, is an attempt to predict the consequences of a nuclear attack on London. The scenario is the same as the one assumed in a government exercise carried out in 1980, namely that in a single afternoon six nuclear weapons are exploded within a 20 mile radius of the centre of the city.
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