NEWS Division, Atomic Energy Research Estab lishment, Harwell. Diffraction Gratings and Their Use in Infrared Spectroscopy. L. A. SAYCE, Light Division, National Physical Labora tory, Teddington. Measurements with a Cesium Iodide Prism. Ε . Κ. PLYLEB, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D . C.
Conference on Silicosis A conference on silicosis and occupa tional chest diseases, jointly sponsored by the Mclntyre Research Foundation of Toronto, Canada, and the Saranac Laboratory, Saranac Lake, Ν. Υ., will be held at Saranac Lake, February 7 to 9. Anthony J. Lanza, emeritus pro fessor of industrial medicine at New York University—Bellevue Medical
X - R a y Diffraction In order to meet the growing demand for basic education and refresher train ing in x-ray diffraction and its applica tions, X-Ray Department, General Electric Co., will hold its third course on this subject this year from September 27 to October 1 at 4855 Electric Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Experts on particular phases of x-ray diffraction, who will present lectures and laboratory work, include: David Harker, Protein Structure Project, Poly technic Institute of Brooklyn; Victor Hicks, Allen-Bradley Co., Milwaukee; B. D. Cullity, Metallurgical Depart ment, Unwersity of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.; R. K. Scott, Hall Labora tories, Inc., Pittsburgh; S. F. Kern, Antibiotics Purification Development, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; Howard W. Pickett, Joseph Ranftl, and Rolf Edholm, General Electric Co.
ANALYST'S CALENDAR
Sixteenth Midwest Regional Meeting. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Omaha,
Neb., November 4 to 6.
Optical Society of America. Annual meeting, Los Angeles, Calif., October 14 to 16.
Sixth Annual Conference on. Electronics and Nucleonics in Medicine. Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engineers, Institute of Radio Engineers, and Instrument Society of America. Hotel New Yorker, New York, Ν. Υ., Novem ber 19 and 20.
Sixth Southeastern Regional Meeting. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Thomas
Jefferson Hotel, Birmingham, Ala., October 21 to 23. 36th National Metal Congress and Ex position. American Society for Met als, Chicago, III., October 30 to No vember 5. Twelfth Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference. Mellon Institute, Pitts burgh, Pa., November 3 to 5. Joint with American Crystallographic Asso ciation.
NATIONAL PRESENTS ths NEW ι
Center, New York, has been named chairman of the conference and of the scientific program committee, which comprises Dudley Irwin, Aluminum Co. of America; Guy Hannon, Mclntyre Research Foundation; Gordon M. Meade, Trudeau-Saranac Institute; and Gerrit W. H. Scheepers, Saranac Labo ratory. Information is available from Norman R. Sturgis, Jr., Saranac Lab oratory, Saranac Lake, Ν. Υ.
Eighth Annual Symposium on Modern Methods of Analytical Chemistry. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., January 31 to February 3. 1955. American Chemical Society. 127th Na tional Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 20 to April 7, 1955.
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