Abstract
THE international character of science which has been so often referred to by eminent men and so frequently stressed in the pages of Nature is well illustrated by the centenaries of distinguished investigators in physical science which occur in 1946. Disregarding for the moment the tercentenary of the great German scholar, philosopher, diplomatist and mathematician Leibniz, the year recalls first a succession of astronomers of many nationalities from the days when men's views were coloured by the mysteries of astrology and the dogmas of religion, and when there were neither scientific journals nor societies, much less international gatherings.
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