Editorial

This first issue of the TRANSACTIONS is a sign that the Professional Group on Nuclear Science has come of age and is ready to take its place as a responsible organ within the body of the parent organization, The Institute of Radio Engineers. The Institute set up the Nuclear Science Committee shortly after the war, to provide a forum for those engineers and scientists who worked in the new and rapidly developing field of nuclear technology. The Nuclear Science Committee gave rise to the Professional Group on Nuclear Science, which, as one of the first, did much to develop the concept of professional group structure within the I.R.E.