The Charles L. Mayer nature of light awards

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1944
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 48 KB
• Volume: 237
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(44)90968-3

✦ Synopsis

The National Science Fund announces two Charles L. Mayer Awards for contributions submitted before January I, I946 on the nature of light.

A prize of $2,ooo will be awarded for an outstanding contribution to our basic understanding of the nature of light and other electromagnetic phenomena which provides in terms intelligible to the community of scientists at large a unified understanding of the two aspects of these phenomena which are at present jointly described by wave and by corpuscular theories.

The second prize of $2,o0o will be awarded for an outstanding comprehensive contribution to a logical, consistent theory of the interaction of charged particles with an electromagnetic field including the interaction of particles moving with relative high speeds.

The first award is intended to encourage for the benefit of the nonspecialist the interpretation of facts already known to the specialist. It is hoped that the second award will stimulate attack on one of the most fundamental unsolved problems in physics.