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PROF. H. THIRRING, in an address made during the opening ceremony of the Short Wave Congress held in Vienna on July 12–17, referred to the many fields of application of Hertzian waves in research, medicine and radio technology. These fields are to some extent interdependent, and there are in particular medical and biophysical problems which require the collaboration of biologists, physicists and radio-engineers if they are to be solved satisfactorily. Thirring pointed specially to the urgent problem of dosage measurement in short wave therapy and to the fundamental scientific question of the mode of biological action of short waves: specific or thermal. These problems occupied a prominent position in the Congress, and, together with purely physical papers, will form the substance of the present report; the review articles in the various sections and the fifty or so papers in the medical section will not be dealt with. (Number in brackets in each heading indicates the number of papers presented.)
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BATEMAN, J. International Congress for Short Waves in Physics, Biology and Medicine, Vienna*. Nature 140, 372–374 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140372a0
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