Briefly Noted

Sanborn C. Brown '35, president of the International Commission on Physics Education, is one of three co-authors of WhyTeach Physics?, published for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics by the M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 97 pp., $3.50. The book which contains a chapter written by Professor Brown ("Cultural Values in Science Teaching") is a highly-condensed and interpretive account of discussions between the physicists of 26 countries who met at the Second International Conference on Physics Education held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in mid-1963. Contributors were from Brazil, France, The Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Professor Brown is also the author of a chapter in Science in Progress, Yale University Press, 1963, entitled "Plasma Physics," and was chairman of a Commission of College Physics which produced the article in American Journal ofPhysics, Vol. 31, No. 8, August 1963, pp. 637-691, "Outline of a Course in Plasma Physics."