1472 W. LUKOSZ Vol. 56

Alfred Kastler to Receive Nobel Prize

The news has just been received that Professor Kastler will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on optical pumping which was cited when he was awarded the first C. E. K. Mees International Medal by the Optical Society in 1962. Professor Kastler is Professor of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris. See the August 1963 issue of the Journal, pages 900-910 for a portrait of Professor Kastler, the citation for the Mees Medal, an outline of his researches, and his lecture at the Rochester meeting of the Society, en­titled "Displacement of Energy Levels of Atoms by Light."