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Low temperature conference

MAR 01, 1958
J. Wilks

The department of physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, was host to the Fifth International Conference on Low‐Temperature Physics and Chemistry from August 26 to 31, 1957. The National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Atomic Energy Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation joined with the University of Wisconsin in sponsoring this conference. 440 scientists attended with 353 coming from the United States, 24 from Canada, and a total of 63 from the following 11 countries: Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Japan, Norway, and Switzerland.

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J. Wilks, Pembroke College, Oxford.

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