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THE volume of "Contributions“from the Physical Laboratories of Harvard University for 1935 is again of quarto form and consists of reprints without change of pagination, of fifty-seven memoirs by members of the staff, fellows and students which have appeared in scientific periodicals such as the Physical Review, theProceedings of the American Academy, the Review of Scientific Instruments, during 1935 and the first two months of 1936. The quarto form allows the inclusion of the large double column pages of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, but gives very wide margins to the single column pages of the Proceedings of the Academy. Work on the physical properties of materials at high hydrostatic pressure accounts for seven or eight of the memoirs, and special interest is attached to Prof. P. W. Bridgman's method of securing measurements at 50,000 atmospheres pressure in steel vessels which normally rupture at 20,000 atmospheres. Atomic physics accounts for about a dozen memoirs, of which“that on the quantum theory of valence by Prof. Van Vleck and Dr. Sher-man, a fellow of the National Research Council, reprinted from Reviews of Modern Physics, may be mentioned. The whole volume bears evidence to the active part Harvard is taking in the advance of knowledge.
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Physics at Harvard. Nature 140, 356 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140356c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140356c0