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Colloque national de magnetisme commemoratif de l'oeuvre de Pierre Weiss
BOOK REVIEW Colloque National de Magnet&me Commemoratif de l’oeuvre de Pierre Weiss. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. 325 pp.
developments associated with concepts first introduced by WEISS. The introductory paper by NOEL -perhaps the foremost and most distinguished of WEISS’S students-deals with the concept of molecular field and cites its importance in leading to an understanding of antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism as well as some tenable explanations of anomalies first observed by WEISS. Another paper by GUILLAUD and VAUTIER treats of another concept first advanced by WEISS-the domain-about which much new information has become available recently. The balance of the volume gives a good indication of the types of research currently in progress in the various French laboratories and covers a wide spectrum of magnetic effects. While it seems reasonable to suppose that most of the material contained in this volume will be published in one form or another in the various journals, as an up to date index of the extent, variety and caliber of the work in progress at perhaps the most important geographical center of research in magnetism, this volume should find its way into many a library with leanings towards magnetics.
COMMEMORATING the fiftieth anniversary of the publication by PIERRE WEISS of his celebrated molecular field hypothesis, a Conference on Magnetism was held in Strasbourg in the summer of 1957. A volume has now appeared in which the papers and discussions which took place at that Conference are published. The impact which French science has had on the field of magnetism is universally recognized and is unparalleled in the history of science. Much of modern magnetism -which has seen such an intense flowering in recent years-can be traced directly to WEISS, his students, and “grand-students” many of whom now direct the many laboratories in France devoted in whole or in part to research in magnetism. The list of authors represented in this compilation includes a large number of scientific. descendents of WEISS and at the same time is a veritable Who’s Who in Magnetism. The first few papers are concerned with modern
BOOKS
J. E. GOLDMAN
RECEIVED
Plansee Proceedings, 1958. High Melting Metals (Papers presented at the Third Plansee
Seminar
“De Re Metallica”
held at Reutte/Tyrol
Edited by F. BENESOVSKY.Pergamon Press, 1959. xii+465 R. HERMAN and R. HOFSTADTER: High-Energy Stanford University Press, Stanford,
California,
in June
1958.)
pp. Price E4. 3. 6.
Electron Scattering
Tables.
1960. 278 pp. Price $8.50.
W. HUME-ROTHERY: Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy. The Institute of Metals, London,
1960.427
pp. Price 50s.
176
developments associated with concepts first introduced by WEISS. The introductory paper by NOEL -perhaps the foremost and most distinguished of WEISS’S students-deals with the concept of molecular field and cites its importance in leading to an understanding of antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism as well as some tenable explanations of anomalies first observed by WEISS. Another paper by GUILLAUD and VAUTIER treats of another concept first advanced by WEISS-the domain-about which much new information has become available recently. The balance of the volume gives a good indication of the types of research currently in progress in the various French laboratories and covers a wide spectrum of magnetic effects. While it seems reasonable to suppose that most of the material contained in this volume will be published in one form or another in the various journals, as an up to date index of the extent, variety and caliber of the work in progress at perhaps the most important geographical center of research in magnetism, this volume should find its way into many a library with leanings towards magnetics.
COMMEMORATING the fiftieth anniversary of the publication by PIERRE WEISS of his celebrated molecular field hypothesis, a Conference on Magnetism was held in Strasbourg in the summer of 1957. A volume has now appeared in which the papers and discussions which took place at that Conference are published. The impact which French science has had on the field of magnetism is universally recognized and is unparalleled in the history of science. Much of modern magnetism -which has seen such an intense flowering in recent years-can be traced directly to WEISS, his students, and “grand-students” many of whom now direct the many laboratories in France devoted in whole or in part to research in magnetism. The list of authors represented in this compilation includes a large number of scientific. descendents of WEISS and at the same time is a veritable Who’s Who in Magnetism. The first few papers are concerned with modern
BOOKS
J. E. GOLDMAN
RECEIVED
Plansee Proceedings, 1958. High Melting Metals (Papers presented at the Third Plansee
Seminar
“De Re Metallica”
held at Reutte/Tyrol
Edited by F. BENESOVSKY.Pergamon Press, 1959. xii+465 R. HERMAN and R. HOFSTADTER: High-Energy Stanford University Press, Stanford,
California,
in June
1958.)
pp. Price E4. 3. 6.
Electron Scattering
Tables.
1960. 278 pp. Price $8.50.
W. HUME-ROTHERY: Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy. The Institute of Metals, London,
1960.427
pp. Price 50s.
176