Prague Conference on the Use of X-Rays in the Metal Industries

THE Society of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists arranged an X-ray Conference held in Prague during November 28-December 1. About two hundred attended, and the conference had an air of warm cordiality and collaboration ; lost connexions with the Western world were re-established, and the Czech X-ray workers, isolated by six years of German occupation, came into personal contact for the first time with the scientific workers of the United Nations and their publications. The conference, which was the first of its kind in liberated Czechoslovakia, was opened by Dr. M. Hampl, who greeted the foreign guests and recalled victims of the terror of the German occupation ; naming Prof. V. Dolejšek, Prof. F. Ulrich, Prof. F. Záviška, Dr. Radim Nová?ek, Dr. Miklenda, Dr. L. Slaviková, Prof. Šimek, Dr. J. Klein, Prof. Rosieky, Dr. Žadkevi?, Prof. Sahánek, Dr. Köppel (see also Nature, 157, 332; 1946).