Visiting Foreign Scientists

Abstract

The Office of International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council has circulated a bulletin giving information on the interests and itineraries of foreign scientists and engineers visiting the United States. A number of the visitors listed in the first issue of this bulletin are in fields touching on physics: Dr. I. G. C. Dryden, head, Chemistry and Physics Section, British Coal Utilization Research Association, will be here from August 28 to September 30 and attend the Gordon Research Conference on Coal August 31-September 3. His address is c/o U.K. Scientific Mission, 1800 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. Mr. J. W. Boag, Radiotherapeutic Research Unit, Medical Research Council, U.K., will spend a year working on physical problems in radiology with Dr. U. Fano at NBS. Miss E. J. Hanson, Biophysics Research Unit, Medical Research Council, U.K., is spending a year here under a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and is to work with K. R. Porter of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from August 1953 to February 1954.