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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



113- American Astronautical Society. 516 5th 



Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. President: 

 George Arthur, General Electric Company, 

 3198 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. Executive Secre- 

 tary: Fernand F. Martin, Radio Corporation 

 of America, Front and Cooper Streets, Cam- 

 den, N. J. Term expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized January 22, 1954; incor- 

 porated February 17, 1954, in New York. 



Purpose: To promote and support scientific 

 research in the varied scientific and engineering 

 fields related to astronautics, and to present 

 findings to the public. 



Membership: Fellows, persons at least 

 twenty-five years of age with college degree 

 or large amount of relevant scientific or indus- 

 trial experience or who have made a contribu- 

 tion to the subject; Members, minimum eighteen 

 years of age ; Student Members, less than 

 eighteen years of age. Total membership 1,000. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Publications: Journal of the Astronautical 

 Sciences, quarterly, $5. Editor : R. E. Roberson. 

 Astronautical Sciences Review, quarterly, $4. 

 Editor : R. Merrick. Proceedings. Editor Horace 

 Jacobs. 



114. American Astronomical Society. Dearborn 

 Observatory, Northwestern University, Evans- 

 ton, 111. President: Lyman Spitzer, Jr., 

 Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, 

 N. J. Term expires August 1962. Secretary: 

 J. Allen Hynek. Term expires June 1961. 



History: Organized 1897 as a conference of 

 astronomers; name changed 1899 to the Astro- 

 nomical and Astrophysical Society of America ; 

 name changed to present title 1914. 



Purpose: Advancement of astronomy and 

 closely related branches of science. 



Membership: Open to any person deemed 

 capable of preparing an acceptable paper upon 

 some subject of astronomy or related branch of 

 science ; however, membership is generally 

 limited to second year graduate students and 

 professional people. A subscription to the 

 Astronomical Journal or the Astrophysical 

 Journal is required of all members over twenty- 

 seven years of age. Life Membei ship has been 

 discontinued and no more are elected to this 

 category; Corporate Members (two types. 

 Regular and Sustaining), open upon invitation 

 to organizations whose activities are related to 

 astronomy ; Emeritus Membership, open to any 

 member on retiring from his academic or other 

 duties. Members, approximately 1,100; Life, 

 150; Corporate, 20; Emeritus, 3. Total mem- 

 bership approximately 1,273. 



Meetings: Normally three national meetings 



per year, usually at a college or an observatory. 



Professional activities: Ernest W. Brown 

 Fund, in support of the Astronomical Journal ; 

 Dorothea K. Roberts Fund and the Kovalenko 

 Fund, used as specified by the Council ; Annie 

 J. Cannon Prize, established 1933, awarded every 

 three years to women for distinguished contribu- 

 tions to astronomy or closely related sciences, 

 open to women of all countries ; Henry Norris 

 Russell Lectures, annual, first given December, 

 1946 ; Helen B. Warner Prize, to encourage 

 research by younger members of the Society, 

 awarded annually unless a suitable candidate is 

 not found. 



Publications: Astronomical Journal, irregular, 

 $8. Society is also associated with the Astro- 

 physical Journal, bimonthly, $15. 



115. American Automatic Control Council. 



President: John C. Lozier, Bell Telephone 

 Laboratories, Whippany, N. J. Term expires 

 June 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : William E. 

 Vannah, Editor, Control Engineering, 330 

 West 42nd Street, New York 36, N. Y. Term 

 expires December 1960. 



History: Formed in 1956. Committees: 

 Applications, Bibliography, Components, Edu- 

 cation, Publicity, Terminology, and Steering 

 Committee for annual Joint Automatic Control 

 Conference. 



Purpose: To promote cooperation among the 

 various technological societies in the United 

 .States that have an active interest in theory and 

 practice of control engineering ; to provide 

 representation in afi^airs of the International 

 Federation for Automatic Control which will 

 faithfully reflect technical opinion and society 

 policy in the LTnited States. 



Membership: Requires that organization be 

 a professional scientific or engineering society 

 in which a division or group is actively engaged 

 in control engineering, that its request for 

 membership be approved by at least two thirds 

 of the delegates representing the constituent 

 societies of the Council, and that its head- 

 quarters be in the continental United States. 

 Total membership 5 societies. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



Professional activities: A $100 award for best 

 presentation of a suitable paper at the Joint 

 Automatic Control Conference. 



116. American Blood Irradiation Society. Presi- 

 dent: R. C. Olney, 4740 F Street, Lincoln 10, 

 Nebr. Term expires May 31, 1961. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: H. T. Lewis, Jr., 1241 Peermont 

 Avenue, Pittsburgh 16, Pa. Term expires 

 May 31, 1961. 



