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A SYMPOSIUM of papers presented at the seventy-fifth anniversary meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science on April 10, 1943, has now been reprinted (Trans. Kansas Academy of Science, 46) under the title "Science and the War". L. E. Cull deals with the place of food and J. H. McMillan with that of physics in the war effort. The latter points out that when Japan began hostilities, the United States had nearly two hundred physicists directing about five hundred professional physicists, investigating specific war problems. This represented about seventy-three per cent of the physicists in the United States who were judged capable and free to carry on this type of work. Both in government research laboratories and in industry there has been an acute shortage of physicists, and the programme for training war-time physicists does not appear to have been so well organized as that for research. N. P. Sherwood's paper on "Bacteriology, Medicine and the War" emphasizes the marked advance in our knowledge and resources since 1928 for dealing with wound infections, venereal disease, typhoid and tetanus, etc.
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Science and the War. Nature 153, 583 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153583a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153583a0