ACA Beginnings Meetings 

Meetings of ASXRED, CSA, and ACA, 1941-57

 

 Meetings, 1941-1956

 

ASXRED

 

1941    July 28-August 4        Gibson Island, MD

            December 30-31        Joint meeting with Mineralogical Society of America, Boston, MA

 

1942    July 27-August 31      Gibson Island, MD

 

1943    January 23                 Joint meeting with American Physical Society, Columbia Univ., New York, NY

            June 7-11                   Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

1944    August 21-25             Gibson Island, MD

 

1945    October 1-4                Lake Geneva, WI[i]

 

1946    June 10-14                 Lake George, NY

            December 5-7            Joint meeting with Electron Microscope Soc., Pittsburgh, PA

 

1947    June 23-26                 Ste. Marguerite, Quebec, Canada[ii]

 

1948    March 31-April 3        Joint meeting with. C.S.A. at Yale Univ., New Haven, CT.[iii]

            December 16-18        Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH[iv]

 

1949    June 23-25                 Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

            December 1-3            Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA

 

 

CSA

 

1946    March 21-23              Smith College, Northampton. MA. See AmMineral31, 508 (1946)

 

1947    March 19-21              U.S. Naval Academy Postgraduate School, Annapolis, MD. See Am. Mineral.32, 684 (1947)

 

1948    March 31-April 3       Joint meeting with ASXRED at Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. See Am. Mineral. 33, 749 (1948)

 

1949    April 7-9                    Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.[v] See Am. Mineral35, 122 (l950)

 

 

ACA

 

1950    April 10-12                 Penn. State College, State College, PA.[vi]

            August 21-26             New Hampton, NH[vii]

 

1951    February 15-17         National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.[viii]

            October 24-26           Hotels Sherman and Morrison, Chicago, IL

 

1952    June 16-20                Camp Tamiment, Tamiment, PA[ix]

 

1953    June 22-26                Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

1954   April 5-9                     Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

            November 3-5           Joint meeting with Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

 

1955    April 11-13                Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY[x]

            June 27-July 2          California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

 

1956    June 10-15                French Lick, IN[xi]

 

1957    Fall                            Joint meeting to be held with Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Excerpted from: Wood, Elizabeth and William Parrish, Norelco Reporter 4, 48, 1957.

 

 

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[i] Symposium on apparatus, experimental techniques and gadgets.

[ii] Symposium on Geiger counters in X-ray diffraction apparatus (design, chemical analysis, applications to metals and intensity measurements).

[iii] Symposium on organic structures (computational methods and organic structure determination).

[iv] Symposium on identification of materials by crystallographic means.

[v] Symposium on twinning.

[vi] Computer and phase determination conference.

[vii] Full day program of invited papers on solid state physics.

[viii] Symposium on structure methods. Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of National Bureau of Standards.

[ix] Three symposia: proteins, small angle scattering, twinning and related topics.

[x] Invited long papers on X-ray analytical technique. Centenary of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

[xi] Symposium marking the l0th anniversary of neutron diffraction.