American Association of Physics Teachers

ALSO during the joint meeting in New York, the annual Oersted Medal of the AAPT was presented to R. W. Pohl of the University of Göttingen in Germany. Professor Pohl, who has won world-wide acclaim as a teacher of physics and as a master of the techniques of demonstration lecturing, was for reasons of health unable to be present to receive the medal. Instead, it was accepted by his son, R. O. Pohl of Cornell University, who read his father's spirited Oersted Medal Address (on “The Discovery of Interference by Thomas Young”) and at the same time offered an effective demonstration of Professor Pohl's shadow projection methods in illustrating the talk.