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Stated monthly meeting, May 17, 1950
T H E F R A N K L I N INSTITUTE
STATED
MONTHLY
MEETING,
MAY 17, 1950
The May stated meeting of The Franklin Institute was held in the Lecture Hall on Wednesday evening, May 17, 1950, with approximately 250 persons attending. The President called the meeting to order at 8:15 P.M.; and stated that the minutes of the March meeting, which had been printed in full in the April issue of the JOURNAL,would stand approved in the absence of corrections or additions. There were no corrections or additions, and he announced the minutes approved. The President summarized the Annual Report of the Board of Managers for 1949 and stated that it would appear complete in an early issue of the JOURNAL. He then recognized the Secretary who reported that Dr. Eugene Paul Wigner had been nominated by the Board of Managers for Honorary Membership in The Franklin Institute, as a recipient designate of the Franklin Medal, and stated the provisions of the By-Laws applicable to his election. The President called for a viva voce vote on the nomination and, all votes heard having been for the affirmative, declared Dr. Wigner elected. The President then recognized Mr. Ralph Kelly, Chairman of the Vermilye Medal Committee of the Board of Managers, who spoke of the outstanding achievements of Mr. J. Howard Pew in the field of Industrial Management and cited him to receive the Vermilye Medal. That medal, and the accompanying citation, were then presented to Mr. Pew by the President, with his congratulations. Thereafter, the President recited the circumstances underlying the annual Charles Day Lecture, and introduced Mr. Pew as the speaker of the evening. Mr. Pew talked on "Management and the Free Market" to the great enjoyment of his audience and was tendered a rising vote of thanks as the meeting adjourned. HENRY B. ALLEN Secretary
lED. NOTE: The full report of the Board of Managers and the full proceedings of the Vermilye Medal Presentation, including the text of Mr. Pew's address, will be published in the July issue of the JOURNAL.]
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE The following papers will appear in the JOURNALwithin the next few months: BEYER, ROBERT T. AND MING-YI WEX: An Extension of a Theory of Magnetic Amplifiers THORNTON,WILLIAMi . , JR., AND EDWARD S. HAUBER: Zirconium as a Material for Fractional Weights WALLMAN, HENRY: An Electric Integral-Transform Computer and the Practical Solution of Integral Equations LAUTERBACH,KENNETH E.: Specific-Surface Determinations of Uranium Dusts by Low-Temperature Adsorption of Ethane KRZYWOBLOCKI, i . Z.: On the Asymptotic Expansion in Three-Dimensional Compressible Viscous Flow MERIAM, J. L.: Differential Analyzer Solution for the Stresses in a Rotating Bell-Shaped Shell MOON, PARRY AND DOMINAEBERLE SPENCER: Interflections in Coupled Enclosures BORG, S. F.: Additional Interpretations of the Solution of the Straight Beam Differential Equation AYRE, R. S., L. S. JACOBSENAND A. PHILLIPS: Steady Forced Vibration of a Non-Conservative System with Variable Mass; a Pumping System
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STATED
MONTHLY
MEETING,
MAY 17, 1950
The May stated meeting of The Franklin Institute was held in the Lecture Hall on Wednesday evening, May 17, 1950, with approximately 250 persons attending. The President called the meeting to order at 8:15 P.M.; and stated that the minutes of the March meeting, which had been printed in full in the April issue of the JOURNAL,would stand approved in the absence of corrections or additions. There were no corrections or additions, and he announced the minutes approved. The President summarized the Annual Report of the Board of Managers for 1949 and stated that it would appear complete in an early issue of the JOURNAL. He then recognized the Secretary who reported that Dr. Eugene Paul Wigner had been nominated by the Board of Managers for Honorary Membership in The Franklin Institute, as a recipient designate of the Franklin Medal, and stated the provisions of the By-Laws applicable to his election. The President called for a viva voce vote on the nomination and, all votes heard having been for the affirmative, declared Dr. Wigner elected. The President then recognized Mr. Ralph Kelly, Chairman of the Vermilye Medal Committee of the Board of Managers, who spoke of the outstanding achievements of Mr. J. Howard Pew in the field of Industrial Management and cited him to receive the Vermilye Medal. That medal, and the accompanying citation, were then presented to Mr. Pew by the President, with his congratulations. Thereafter, the President recited the circumstances underlying the annual Charles Day Lecture, and introduced Mr. Pew as the speaker of the evening. Mr. Pew talked on "Management and the Free Market" to the great enjoyment of his audience and was tendered a rising vote of thanks as the meeting adjourned. HENRY B. ALLEN Secretary
lED. NOTE: The full report of the Board of Managers and the full proceedings of the Vermilye Medal Presentation, including the text of Mr. Pew's address, will be published in the July issue of the JOURNAL.]
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE The following papers will appear in the JOURNALwithin the next few months: BEYER, ROBERT T. AND MING-YI WEX: An Extension of a Theory of Magnetic Amplifiers THORNTON,WILLIAMi . , JR., AND EDWARD S. HAUBER: Zirconium as a Material for Fractional Weights WALLMAN, HENRY: An Electric Integral-Transform Computer and the Practical Solution of Integral Equations LAUTERBACH,KENNETH E.: Specific-Surface Determinations of Uranium Dusts by Low-Temperature Adsorption of Ethane KRZYWOBLOCKI, i . Z.: On the Asymptotic Expansion in Three-Dimensional Compressible Viscous Flow MERIAM, J. L.: Differential Analyzer Solution for the Stresses in a Rotating Bell-Shaped Shell MOON, PARRY AND DOMINAEBERLE SPENCER: Interflections in Coupled Enclosures BORG, S. F.: Additional Interpretations of the Solution of the Straight Beam Differential Equation AYRE, R. S., L. S. JACOBSENAND A. PHILLIPS: Steady Forced Vibration of a Non-Conservative System with Variable Mass; a Pumping System
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