4 ee € . : a a” Monthly Status Report, May 1951 5 wot -T- Biolocy and Uedicine The Sub-Committee on Protection Against Unconventional Attack met with members of the parent Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security to discuss the significance of some of the Sub—Comzittce's recommendations, including the means amd costa af putting then into operation. General accord was reached in outlining practical solutions to a majority of the more important problems. The Sub-Committee on Radiobiology, o: the National Research Council Committee on Nuclear Radiations, met in Cleveland on May 6, to discuss its conferences on radiobiology (jointly supported by GNB and by ARC through the Biophysica Branch,) to consider the formation of a new society in the field and its publication problems, and other items, Instrumentation Conference, Harwell, England The Third Joint United Kingdom/Canadian/United States Instrumentation Conference was held et Harwell, England, April 30 through May 11, 1951. persons representing the major AFC areas and laborato#lea of the United States attended and contributed to the meeting. The programs included discussions covering major fields of instrumentation falling within the scope of t).e Technical Cooperation Program. Visits to the AERt Harwell Six Laboratories and to various inatrument companies were arranged, In general, 4t was observed that the English desimed instruments stressed reliability in operation and were more standardized than are U. 3. instruments. Itis . felt that the United itates uses higher quality components and that, althoush our country does not stress instrument longevityand standardization to the extent the Znglish do, our system of design freedom and resulting competition has led to better products, Conference on 3asic Instrumentation The Fourth Conference on Sasic Instrumentation was held by the National Bureau of jtandards, Office of Basic Instrumentation, on May 22, 1951. The Basic Instrumentation Program is cooperatively sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, Office of Air flesearch and the Atomic Energy Commission. 3ome of the work engaged in under this progran is reported on in the Quarterly Progress Report of the Office of Basic Instrumentation, March 31, 1951, National Bureau of Standards Report OBI 1010. ana ae Gra L- - OFFICE > SURNAME > DOS ARCHIVES