Abridgment of electrophysics: Annual report of the electrophysics committee

To the Board of Directors: One of the Committee´s principal functions has been to serve as a connecting organization between the world of physics and the Institute. We have been trying to serve this purpose by encouraging papers which bring in new concepts, phenomena, and terminology from working physicists, and discouraging contributions which are results of “inbreeding.” Dielectric phenomena and dielectric theory are two particularly live topics, and there is a constant danger of unnecessarily burdening the Institute publications with contributions which contain more undigested data and unfounded speculations, and which do not bring us any nearer to a rational understanding of the underlying molecular phenomena.