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THE Advisory Council on Applied Physics of the American Institute of Physics met at the University Club, Pittsburgh, Pa., on November 16. This was the inaugural meeting of this Council, the purpose of which is to stimulate the application of physics by recommending suitable actions and policies to the Institute and the founder societies. Dr. Paul D. Foote, executive vice-president of the Gulf Research and Development Corporation, presided during the morning session and Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of the Bureau of Standards, during the afternoon. A discussion was held on the university education and training of men whose careers are to lie in industrial research. This discussion was opened with reports by Dr. Saul Dushman (presented by Dr. A. W. Hull) of the General Electric Co. and Prof. George H. Harrison of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Further discussion was devoted to the services which are rendered by the founder societies and the Institute to physicists employed in industrial laboratories. Reports on this topic were presented by Dr. L. O. Grondahl, director of research, Union Switch and Signal Co., and Prof. John T. Tate, of the University of Minnesota. In this connexion, the Council passed a resolution encouraging the formation by such physicists of a division on applied physics of the Physical Society. It is strongly felt that, while the Optical Society, the Acoustical Society and the Society of Rheology furnish splendid facilities for meetings and publications in their fields, other general applications of. physics are neglected. The opinion of the Council is opposed to the formation of new specialised societies, since only through close integration with the Physical Society can the community of interest and interchange of ideas between the general applications and the basic fundamentals of physics be conserved.
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Physics in Industry in the United States. Nature 136, 946 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136946a0
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