Gravity essay prizes

The Gravity Research Foundation has awarded its first prize of $1000 to Banesh Hoffmann of Queens College, New York, for an essay entitled, “Negative Mass as a Gravitational Source of Energy in the Quasi‐Stellar Radio Sources”. Named to receive the $300 second prize was Ryoyo Utiyama of Osaka University in Japan for his essay, “Quantum Theory and Gravity”. The third prize of $200 was awarded to Ezra T. Newman of the University of Pittsburgh for his paper “The Nature of Sources of a Gravitational Field”. Robert L. Forward of Hughes Research Laboratories was named to receive the fourth prize of $150 for his paper on “Detection of Non‐Newtonian Gravitational Effects with Quantum Fluids”. A fifth prize of $100 was awarded to Henry P. Kalmus of the US Army Material Command, whose subject was “A New Gravity Meter”. Their awards were presented during the annual Gravity Day program, held this year at New Boston, N. H., on August 29.