CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 1021 



War Department, 194G; Air Force Association Citation of Honor, 1951; 

 Morris Licbmann jNIemorial Prize, I.R.E., 1952; Oliver E. Buckley 

 Solid State Physics Prize, American Physical Society, 1953; Certificate 

 of Appreciation, Department of Army, 1953; Comstock Prize, National 

 Academy of Sciences, 1954. Fellow of American Physical Societ}^; Senior 

 Member Institute of Radio Engineers; Member of National Academy 

 of Sciences, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi. For the past few months he has been 

 on leave to California Institute of Technology for teaching and study 

 in the field of solid state physics. 



DoxALD H. Smith, B.S. in E.E., University of Minnesota, 1944; Bell 

 Telephone Laboratories, 1947-. After working with the Systems Depart- 

 ment of the Laboratories on trial installations, Mr. Smith was concerned 

 with rectifiers and regulating systems in power development. He is cur- 

 rently in charge of the group doing long-range engineering on power de- 

 velopment. ^Member of A.I.E.E. and the Amateur Astronomers Associa- 

 tion. 



R. W. Strickland, B.M.E., University of Florida, 1951; Western 

 Electric Companj^, 1951^. Mr. Strickland served two and a half years 

 in the U. S. Armed Forces prior to receiving his degree. Since coming to 

 the Western Electric Company, he has been active in the development 

 of equipment and processes for molding of plastic components of the 

 wire spring relay. Junior member A.S.M.E. 



Harry Suhl, B.Sc, University of Wales, 1943; Ph.D., Oriel College, 

 University of Oxford, 1948. Admiralty Signal Establishment, 1943-46; 

 Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1948-. Dr. Suhl conducted research on the 

 properties of germanium until 1950 when he became concerned with 

 electron d>aiamics and solid state physics research. His current work is 

 in the applied physics of solids. Member of the American Institute of 

 Ph\'sics and Fellow of the American Physical Society. 



Eric E. Sumxer, B.M.E., Cooper Union, 1948; M.A. Degree in 

 Physics, Columbia University, 1953; Instructor of Physics, Cooper 

 Union, 1947-48; Non-resident instructor of Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology on Probability and Statistics — Applications to Sampling and 

 Quality Control, summer, 1950; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1948-. INlr. 

 Sumner was given rotational assignments in apparatus, switching, and 

 Television transmission development and switching research, and has 

 worked on a number of projects, including the card translator, the mag- 



