Abstract :
A POPULAR lecture on “Atomic Disintegration” by Doctor Enrico Fermi, distinguished physicist and winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics, will be one of the high lights of the Institute´s forthcoming winter convention, to be held in New York, N. Y., January 22–26, 1940, with headquarters at the Engineering Societies building. Doctor Fermi´s lecture will be delivered on Wednesday evening, January 24, in connection with the presentation of the Edison and Hoover Medals, and will be followed by demonstrations of atomic disintegration by Doctor John R. Dunning, professor of physics, Columbia University.
