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    4055 JUJy 19, 1947 NATURE 83

    NEWS and VIEWS


    Theoretical Physics at Manchester : Prof. L. Electrical Engineering in the University of
    Rosenfeld Alberta: Prof. J. A. Harle
    DR. LEON RosENFELD has now taken up the MR. J. A. HARLE, head of the Technical and Research
    position, to which he was recently appointed, of Department of Messrs. A. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd., has
    professor of theoretical physics in the University of been appointed professor of electrical engineering in
    Manchester in su.ccession to Prof. D. R. Hartree. the University of Alberta at Edmonton, Canada, and
    Prof. Rosenfeld was born in 1904 in Liege, graduating is sailing early in August to take up his appointment
    there in 1926. He then spent a year in Paris at the on September l. He served his time with Messrs.
    Ecole Normale Superieure, during which he worked C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., and studied at Armstrong
    with Prof. Louis de Broglie. His first published work, (now King's) College under the late Prof. W. M.
    on five-dimensional relativity, appeared about this Thornton, graduating with distinction in 1919. He
    time. In 1927 he went as assistant to Prof. Max was appointed lecturer in electrical engineering at
    Born in Gottingen, and while there worked on. prob- Armstrong College in the same year. In 1922 the
    lems of optical activity and the Faraday effect ; then late Mr. Clothier invited him to join the Technical and
    to Zurich with Prof. Pauli, where he studied quantum Research Department of Messrs. A. Reyrolle & Co.,
    electrodynamics. In 1931 he became a teacher in Ltd., and he took over the headship of the Depart-
    the School of Electrical Engineering at Liege. From ment in 1937, when he succeeded Mr. B. H. Leeson.
    1930 until 1940 he worked in very close collaboration Mr. Harle served as chairman of the North-Eastern
    with Prof. Niels Bohr, spending a considerable part Centre of the Institution of Electrical Engineers during
    of each year in Copenhagen. In 1935 he was elected the session 1944-45, and he has been the Institution's
    to the chair of theoretical physics at Liege, and in area member for the Education and Training Advisory
    1940 moved to a similar chair at Utrecht in Holland. Service for returned Service members. He is parti-
    Prof. Rosenfeld is one of the leading theoretical cularly interested in insulation and circuit-breaking
    physicists of to-day and is distinguished not only for problems, both from the research and from the
    his great original contributions to the most difficult standardization point of view.
    and deep parts of modern quantum mechanics and
    nuclear structure, but also for his wide knowledge and Genetical Society of Great Britain : Honorary
    scholarship. He is now completing a book on the Members
    quantum theory of nuclear forces which should prove
    valuable to all theoretical workers on nuclear struc- AT the annual general meeting of the Genetical
    ture. In his new position in Manchester he will add Society of Great Britain, held at Rothamsted Experi-
    greatly to the strength of theoretical physics in mental Station, Harpenden, on July 3, the following
    England. He will be in very close touch with the were elected honorary members of the Society :
    experimental researches being carried out in the Prof. Herman Joseph Muller, Department of Zoology,
    Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., who has
    laboratory of Prof. P. M. S. Blackett.
    played a leading part in the analysis of the genetics of
    Drosophila, and is known especially for work on
    Case Institute of Technology: Dr. T. K. Glennan the induction of mutation by X-rays, which he
    DR. T. KEITH GLENNAN, now an executive of the initiated and developed; Prof. Otto Renner, Depart-
    Ansco Division of General Aniline & Film Corporation, ment of Botany, University, Jena, known for his
    Binghamton, New York, and war-time director of the analysis of the genetics of Oenothera, by which he
    U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory, has been solved a problem which had exercised evolutionists
    appointed president of the Case Institute of Tech- for twenty-five years, and also for his outstanding
    nology. Dr. Glennan will be the first business execu- work on the autonomy of plastids ; Prof. 0jvind
    tive to head the Cleveland engmeering school, which Winge, Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, dis-
    has had but three presidents since its establishment tinguished for his studies on the sex chromosomes,
    sixty-seven years ago as the Case School of Applied especially of fish and of flowering plants, by which he
    Science and which adopted its new name on successfully demonstrated the evolution of the XX-,
    July l. He succeeds Dr. William E. Wickenden, XY-chromosome mechanism, also for his distin-
    who retires on September 1, after eighteen years guished researches on the genetics of wheat and of
    of service. the ever-sporting stock (Matthiola).
    Dr. Gierman received the Medal for Merit, the
    highest civilian award which the U.S. Government can International Union of Crystallography
    bestow, for his work during 1942-45 at the U.S. Navy AT an international conference of crystallographers
    Underwater Sound Laboratory, which was operated held in London in July 1946 under the auspices of the
    by Columbia University at New London, Conn., for X-ray Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics
    the Office of Scientific Research and Development, (Nature, 158, 260 (1946); J. Sci. Instr., 24, 1 (1947))
    headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush. As director of this a committee was appointed to prepare a permanent
    laboratory he guided the development of various international organisation of crystallographers. This
    submarine detection and location devices. One of task has now been achieved, and an International
    these, the expendable radio sono-buoy, is described Union of Crystallography has been formed and recog-
    in James Phinney Baxter's Pulitzer prize volume, nized by the International Council of Scientific Unions.
    "Scientists Against Time", as "one of the outstanding In the countries adhering to the Union, national
    developments of the war". This device led to the crystallographic committees will be set up. Among
    destruction of a large number of German submarines the purposes of the new Union listed in the statutes
    and played an important part in the Battle of the are the promotion of international co-operation and
    Atlantic. publication, and the representation of crystallography

    © 1947 Nature Publishing Group

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