“The Surface Science
Show of the Year”
Interest. in vacuum technology
has probably never been so well
Some of the nation’s leading
scientists in the field of vacuum
Chapter of the American Vacuum
than 200 attending the symposium,
during which more than 40 technical papers were presented.
Among 72 persons completing
the short course on vacuum tech-
plications for enrollment in the
technicians from the Laboratory,
an equal number from the Sandia
Corporation and two students from
Los Alamos High School.
35 classroom seats reserved for the
demonstrated to the New Mexico
Society (AVS) as it was recently in
Los Alamos when the chapter, for
the first time, combined its Annual
Meeting and Technical Symposium with a short course.
The event, co-sponsored by the
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
was “the surface science show of
the year,” said Claude Winkleman,
K.-3, chairman of the New Mexico
chapter who was responsible for
the technical part of the program.
Surface science, as it applies to
vacuum equipment, is now included as a division of the AVS.
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technology were among the more
nology were 35 staff members and
The course, the most elementary
of a series of three offered by the
Society, was directed by L. C.
Beavis, a recognized authority in
vacuum technology from Sandia,
who wasalso the principal lecturer.
Karl
Johnson,
CMB-II,
chatr-
man of the New Mexico chapter’s
Educational
Committee, said
ap-
short course far exceeded expecta-
tions. He noted that more than 250
personnel from LASL alone had
applied for enrollment. To resolve
the problem of who would fill the
Laboratory, enrollment was limited
to four employees from each di-
vision, based on the recommenda-
tions of division leaders. Winkleman and Johnson noted that the
possibility of offering the course
again later in the fall for LASL
employees only is being investi-
gated,