Annual Report of Electrophysics Committee
Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers · 1921
To the Board of Directors, T HE Electrophysics Committee desires to receive suggestions for future work.It seems well, therefore, for this purpose to re-state from the report of last year the policy that this Committee has endeavored to carry out.It is as follows:1. To encourage original papers of high technical standard, marking advances in electrophysics.2. To have each year a broad, interesting, general lecture, free from mathematics, dealing with modern physics.3. To promote a more complete cooperation and mutual understanding between the engineer and the physicist.It is our object to keep open the "line of communication" between the pure physicist and the strictly applied physicist or engineer.A joint meeting was held with the American Physical Society in Philadelphia, October 10-llth.The Physical Society session gave a notable discussion on the present status of theories of atomic structure.A review of this subject designed for engineers has been printed in the JOURNAL.The Á. É. Å. E. papers showed how these theories had been practically applied in the study of crystal structure and in the solution of vacuum tube problems.Other papers covered a variety of subjects marking advances in electrophysics.Talks were given in an evening session by past presidents of the two Societies.It was the object of these talks to promote cooperation.The titles are significant-"The Indispensability to Each Other of Pure and Applied Science" by H. A. Bumstead;