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A MEETING of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics will be held in October next in London and a joint conference will be held with the Physical Society, under the presidencies of Prof. R. A. Millikan and Lord Rayleigh. The last meeting of the Union took place in 1931 at Brussels (see NATURE of September 19, 1931, p. 485), when an invitation from the Royal Society to meet in London was withdrawn in order to enable the Union to accept the American invitation for a meeting at Chicago at the Century of Progress Exhibition in 1933. Prof. R. A. Millikan was elected president, but on account of economic conditions the meeting was cancelled and the Royal Society renewed its invitation to meet in London. The invitation was accepted and the meeting will be held on October 1–6. The work of the Union will include consideration of the report of the Commission on Symbols, Units and Nomenclature appointed at its last meeting. The Commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Glazebrook, has dealt with electrical, calorimetric and thermometric units and work has also been done in connexion with radio-metric and acoustical units. Dr. Hales' committee on Instruments and Instrumental Methods will, it is anticipated, desire to consult the Union on a number of questions. Apart from this formal business, it was felt that the occasion should also be utilised for international discussion on a subject or subjects now attracting general interest; certain aspects of the solid state of matter were suggested as suitable.
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International Conference on Physics. Nature 133, 901 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133901b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133901b0