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THE International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation is an organ of the League of Nations which at intervals arranges small conferences of experts in various subjects. In the past it has given its main attention to educational, historical and archaeological subjects, but recently it has extended into science ; for example, not long ago it organized a small conference in Paris on phytohormones ; another at Neuchâtel, on the molecular and atomic weights of gases, a third one in Prague, dealing with the publication of ancient scientific manuscripts. It recently embarked on a larger scheme by inviting about thirty physicists to meet in Warsaw for the purpose of discussing the philosophy of physics. The meeting took place on May 29—June 2 under the presidency of Prof. Bialobrzeski ; as hosts there were Profs. Rubinowicz, Szczeniowski, Weissenhof, Wertenstein and Wisniewski, and the following guests accepted invitations: Profs. E. Bauer, Niels Bohr, L. Brillouin, L. de Broglie, C. G. Darwin, Sir Arthur Eddington, R. H. Fowler, G. Gamow, S. Goudsmit, E. Hylleraas, O. Klein, H. A. Kramers, L. de Kronig, P. Langevin, C. Moeller, J. von Neumann, F. Perrin, L. Rosenfeld, E. P. Wigner.
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DARWIN, C. Modern Views in Physics: International Conference. Nature 142, 143–144 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142143a0
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