MEETING WITH ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE AT NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS JANUARY 9, 1953 12:00 1:15 Iuncheon at Tilden Gardens Assemble in Lecture Room, Materials Testing Laboratory. Greeting and opening remarks by Dr. A. V. Astin, Director, National Bureau of Standards. 1. Remarks about General Program of Radiation Physics Laboratory L. S. Taylor, Chief Atomic and Radiation Physics Division General program of laboratory and reference to the more complete outline of April 1952, Work of the National Committee on Radiation Protection, New facilities being added: Betatron Laboratory Annex, Radioactivity Building, Penthouse on High Voltage Labora- tory, Radioisotope Handling Laboratories in Materials Testing Laboratory. programs, Relationship of AEC supported programs with other Radiation Data (AEC Project 2958) and (Penetration and Diffusion of High Energy Radiations) U, Fano, Chief Nuclear Physics Section The whole activity of this section constitutes actually a single large project, whose cost amounts to roughly 120,000 dollars in this fiscal year, Its objective is to strive towards comprehensive, detailed and continued theoretical treatment of the project of high energy radiation through matter and of its successive transformetions, Only a minor portion of the necessary basic knowledge is available; ites analysis, evaluation, and dissemination constitutes by itself a major task, The evaluation and dissemination actually is supported by the Biology and Medicine programs to the extent of $21,000 (Project 2958, Radiation Data). * Approximately 10 minutes will be taken at each of the discussions or stops indicated.