Visiting Foreign Scientists

The Office of International Relations of the National Academy of Sciences‐National Research Council has circulated a bulletin giving information on the interests and itineraries of foreign scientists and engineers visiting the United States. A number of the visitors listed in the first issue of this bulletin are in fields touching on physics: Dr. I. G. C. Dryden, head, Chemistry and Physics Section, British Coal Utilization Research Association, will be here from August 28 to September 30 and attend the Gordon Research Conference on Coal August 31‐September 3. His address is c/o U.K. Scientific Mission, 1800 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. Mr. J. W. Boag, Radiotherapeutic Research Unit, Medical Research Council, U.K., will spend a year working on physical problems in radiology with Dr. U. Fano at NBS. Miss E. J. Hanson, Biophysics Research Unit, Medical Research Council, U.K., is spending a year here under a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and is to work with K. R. Porter of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from August 1953 to February 1954.