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A symposium on the determinationof molecular structure, ranging fromdiscussions of classical diffraction tech-niques to reports on magneto-opticalrotation spectra and the Mossbauer ef-fect, was part of the program of thechemistry section of the AAAS at thePhiladelphia meeting in December.Eight papers were presented.A technique which will see wide ap-

plication in the future is magneto-optical rotation spectroscopy (MOR),described by Victor Shashoua (du PontCompany). This is an extension of themethod of optical rotatory dispersionin which the rotation of polarized lightby the sample is measured as a functionof frequency in the visible and ultra-violet regions of the spectrum. Whilethe optical rotatory dispersion method(ORD) is limited to substances whichare naturally optically active, the newmethod has no such limitation. All sub-stances in a magnetic field rotate theplane of polarized light. Because of this,there are no inert solvents for this tech-nique and considerable care has to beexercised in the interpretation of theresults. Working with a magnetic fieldof 10,000 gauss and temperature con-trol of ±0.1.°, Shashoua was able toreport a precision of +0.0030 in mea-suring the rotation.The spectra obtained are similar in

general character to the ORD spectrabut often show considerably more de-tail than ORD shows in compoundswhich are naturally optically active. Re-sults were shown for a wide variety ofsubstances ranging from inorganic com-plexes to polypeptides. Among othereffects this technique can detect tripletstates as well as changes such as thosedue to complexing and change of pHon hemoglobin. More will be heard inthe future about this generally appli-cable technique.

S. S. Hanna reviewed recent workwith the Mossbauer effect. Because ofthe extreme sharpness of the gamma-ray lines, differences in absorption canbe achieved by use of the Doppler ef-fect produced by very low relative ve-locities of source to absorber. Thus, linewidths of 108 electron volts can bemeasured by use of the drive mecha-nism on an ordinary lathe bed. Theposition of the nuclear energy levels isaffected by the d-c magnetic field pro-duced at the nucleus by the orbitalelectrons. Although only electrons in s

orbitals contribute to the magnetic fieldat the nucleus, these electrons can be

polarized by unpaired electrons in otherorbitals. The Mossbauer effect thus isvery sensitive to the electronic environ-ment of the absorbing nucleus. Consid-erable data were presented for absorp-tion by iron atoms in various chemicalenvironments, but no clear relationshipwith molecular structure has been de-veloped as yet. It appears that theMossbauer effect is the best test avail-able for the correctness of calculatedelectron density functions near thenucleus.

Walter C. Hamilton (Brookhaven Na-tional Laboratory) considered some ofthe more recent structural studies inwhich neutron diffraction techniquesare used. Among the works cited wasthat of the square planar structure ofXeF4 and the linear structure of XeF2.

M. KENT WILSONDepartment of Chemistry, TuftsUniversity, Medford, Massachusetts

Tongues of Science

The complex of problems which con-fronts the scientist in his attempt to takeadvantage of knowledge contributed byhis colleagues in tongues other than hisown was the subject of the symposiumpresented by the Information and Com-munication Section (T) on 26 and 27December at the AAAS meeting inPhiladelphia. The symposium, entitledOther Tongues of Science: Assimilatingthe Literature of Other Nations, wascosponsored by the National ScienceFoundation.The symposium's 26 participants rep-

resented government and private agen-cies, organizations, societies, industries,and institutions actively supporting andcarrying on programs to insure the in-flow of scientific information into theUnited States and to make it availableto the scientist in usable forms. Whileestimates vary somewhat, only about 35percent of the scientific literature, evenwhen it is made available, can be un-derstood in the original by individualscompetent to read English alone. Sci-entists who read Russian in addition toEnglish have access to about 50 per-cent, or half of the world's scientificliterature.The currently extensive acquisition,

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are they? Are U.S. scientists beingtrained to handle foreign literature com-petently without translations? Shouldentire journals be translated or shouldtranslated titles or abstracts first be cir-culated to scientists as bases for theselection of certain full papers to betranslated? Can answers to these ques-tions be the same for all scientific dis-ciplines? Or does the literature of onebranch of science differ significantlyfrom that of another?One session of the symposium was

devoted to accounts of how foreignscientific information is handled inother countries. Representatives of in-formation agencies in Great Britain,Canada, Japan, and Scandinavia pre-sented details of current programs intheir respective areas. Cooperation, co-ordination, and integration of the workof various inforniation groups and in-terests within the country contributedsignificantly. Traditional early introduc-tion of foreign languages into schoolcurricula provides those who enter sci-ence with a good working knowledgeof those languages.As to the nature of translations, whole

journal (cover-to-cover) translations ap-parently are desirable in certain discip-lines such as physics. Most of the sig-nificant Russian research reports inphysics, for exaniple, are concentratedin relatively few journals. By translatingthese completely one can cover thefield remarkably well. In other fieldsof Russian science, such as astronautics,research information is diffuse; reportsare scattered throughout many publica-tions. To cover Russian astronautics,then, a selection of articles to be trans-lated becomes a necessity.

It was acknowledged that the broad-ening of language training programsfor U.S. scientists is needed. Merelysatisfying language requirements for ad-vanced degrees provides the young sci-entist with only limited ability to readthe scientific literature in these tongues.Furthermore, he is apt to select lan-guages he feels are easier to master,rather than those he is most likely torequire to cover the literature of hisfield. Even at best, the linguistically-gifted and well-trained scientist seldomcomprehends the subtleties of more thantwo foreign languages. He too must de-pend on translations for much of theliterature in other tongues.As the literature increases in volume

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health and growth of science in theUnited States substantial foreign trans-lation programs must be continued forthe foreseeable future.

Derek J. deSolla Price was the speak-er at a Section T luncheon. His subject,"A calculus of scientific informationand manpower," dealt with such prop-ositions as these: the number of scien-tists in a field increases as the squaresof the number of good scientists andamount of good work; the dollar costof research increases as the square ofthe total number of scientists employed;the more scientifically mature a countrybecomes, the less will be its share ofthe world-total of scientific work. As afinal corollary of his theory he suggestedthat the scientific paper as a means ofcommunication is fast dying and willbe replaced in part by person-to-personcommunication and in part by machine-handled data and perhaps also somesuch device as a scientific daily news-paper analogous to the Wall StreetJournal or the Financial Times.

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