Recent Papers

There is no need to point out here what enormous importance the study of vacuum electron devices—or, more broadly, electronics—currently has in electrical-engineering higher educat

SOME PROBLEMS OF GAS DISCHARGE OPTICS

This article presents a brief review of some results obtained at the All-Union Order of Lenin Electrotechnical Institute named after V. I. Lenin (VEI) in the field of optics of stationary gas discharge. The review has been prepared for the twenty-fifth anniversary of VEI.

M. H. Pirenne, Diffraction of X-rays and Electrons by Free Molecules.

Visible Radiation in a Synchrotron

Sound Waves in Rooms

METEOR OBSERVATIONS USING RADARS*

Small-Angle X-ray Scattering in Colloidal Systems

THE WILSON CHAMBER AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS

INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

T. Karman and M. Biot, _Mathematical Methods in Engineering_. Translated by M. G. Shestopal, edited by A. I. Lur’e, State Publishing House of Technical-Theoretical Literature. Mosc

A New Point Light Source

Thirty Years of Soviet Optics

The First Operating 8 Million Electron-Volt Synchrotron

A Reply to A. Kostarev

On the Works of P. P. Lazarev in the Field of Biological Physics\*)

Anniversary of the Death of Academician A. N. Krylov

On October 26, 1946, a memorial meeting dedicated to the memory of Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov was held in the Great Conference Hall of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

RECENT WORKS IN THE FIELD OF HIGH PRESSURES\*)

J. Millman and S. Seely, Electronics, 1941. McGraw Hill Co., N. Y.

THE THEORY OF THE MESOTRON AND NUCLEAR FORCES

This article was written for the collection “Meson,” published by Gostekhizdat and written by staff members of the Theoretical Department of FIAN.

Paths of Development of Theoretical Physics in the USSR

Atomic Radii and Interatomic Distances in Metals

From the Editors

NIKOLAI DMITRIEVICH PAPALEKSI

N. Riehl. Luminescence. (Physical properties and technical applications.) Translated by P. P. Feofilov, edited by Acad. S. I. Vavilov. Gostekhizdat, Moscow—Leningrad, 1946, 184 pp.

F. Weitkov. Chronicle of Electricity

On the History of the Exclusion Principle (Pauli Principle)

V. K. Zworykin, G. A. Morton, E. G. Ramberg, J. Hillier, and A. W. Vance. Electron Optics and the Electron Microscope

In the Commission on the History of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences

DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION OF THE THEORY OF SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

APPLICATION OF LIGHT SCATTERING TO DETERMINE MOLECULAR WEIGHT

INDEX OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN *USPEKHI FIZICHESKIKH NAUK* FOR THE YEARS 1918–1946, VOLUMES I–XXX*)

The purpose of this book, as the author writes in the preface, is to interest the scientific worker and the student of physics or chemistry in the field of molecular structure. Hav

INFRARED RADIATION OF THE NIGHT SKY AND NITROGEN DISSOCIATION IN THE IONOSPHERE

On the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation

THE 1946 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

The 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on November 16 of last year to P. W. Bridgman for his work in the field of the physics of ultra-high pressures and, in particular, for the apparatus that made it possible to achieve pressures on the order of several hundred thousand atmospheres.

APPLICATION OF A “BLINKING” FILTER FOR DISTINGUISHING COLORATIONS SIMILAR IN COLOR

NIKOLAI ALEKSEEVICH UMOV

Applied Electronics

Physics of Dielectrics in the Soviet Union

Modern Radio and Science\*

A public lecture delivered on January 6, 1947, at the Moscow House of Scientists.

SEISMIC PHENOMENA DURING THE TESTING OF AN ATOMIC BOMB\*)

Pneumatic Detector of Infrared Radiation

VACUUM BRAZING OF METAL WITH CERAMICS\*)

SOUND WAVES IN ROOMS\*

ELEMENTARY THEORY OF REACTORS WITH CHAIN NUCLEAR REACTIONS\*

Absence of Superconductivity in Uranium

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HIGH POLYMERS *)

PAUL LANGEVIN

N. V. Belov. The Structure of Ionic Crystals and Metallic Phases. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1947, 226 pp., 174 figs. Price 19 rubles, bound.

P. Pringsheim and M. Vogel, Luminescence of Liquids and Solids and Its Practical Applications, New York, 1943.