Physics history conferences

As part of its effort to improve historical documentation of contemporary physics, AIP is cosponsoring with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences three exploratory conferences on recent developments in physics. These meetings, which will be held at various times during the next two years, will consider guidelines for future historical research in such areas as beams and detectors (accelerators, etc.), concepts of the nucleus and solid‐state physics. Participants will include not only physicists and science historians but also sociologists and general historians gathered from the academy’s interdisciplinary membership. Supported by a grant from the American Academy, the project will be under joint direction of an Academy‐AIP group headed by I. Bernard Cohen and including Gerald Holton, Philip Morrison and Cyril S. Smith. Charles Weiner, head of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Physics at AIP, will serve as project director.