Abstract :
The American Institute of Physics has announced the retirement of its Director, Dr. Elmer Hutchisson, who will resume the editorship of the society´s Journal of Applied Physics, of which he was the founder and first editor. Dr. Ralph H. Sawyer, Chairman of the Governing Board of AIP and former Vice President for Research and Graduate Dean of the University of Michigan, will assume the position of Acting Director, while Wallace Waterfall, now Secretary and Treasurer, will become Acting Deputy Director. Mr. Waterfall will continue as AIP Secretary and Gerald F. Gilbert, Controller and Assistant Treasurer, will serve as Acting Treasurer.