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Plasma dynamics

DEC 01, 1958
A Symposium Report
R. Landshoff

During the week of June 8th the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council and the Air Research and Development Command sponsored an international symposium on plasma dynamics. The meetings took place on the beautiful Whitney Estate at Woods Hole on the southwest tip of Cape Cod. Attendance was limited to about fifty scientists actively engaged in research on plasma dynamics who were selected to represent all major aspects of this growing branch of physics. A number of participants came from England, Germany, and Sweden. To the regret of everyone, a simultaneous meeting of the Russian Academy kept scientists from that country away.

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R. Landshoff, Lockheed Missile Systems Division Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif..

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