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xlviii ANNUAL REPORT First Degrees Sc Special lst Class Honours 14 2nd Class Honours Upper Division 12 2nd Class Honours Lower Division 3rd Class Honours Higher Degrees Ph Giles Total proton reaction cross-sections and the scintillation properties of various materials Ph Hiley The statistical mechanics of interacting systems Ph Jones Some observations on the polarization of very low frequency radio waves '1 Ph Male Some optical and electrical properties of natural and synthetic diamonds Ph Senior Some problems in the spectroscopy of the solid state Ph Smart The far infra-red spectroscopy of the crystalline state Departmental Notes At the beginning of the session Biophysics achieved full departmental status under Professor Randall He was succeeded in the Wheat- stone Chair of Physics by Professor Price centenary celebration was organized by the Maxwell Society to commemorate the period during which James Clerk Maxwell was Professor of Physics at King's College 1860-1865 -a time during which his important papers on electromagnetic theory were published This took the form of six public lectures the first of which was by Professor Randall on Some aspects of Maxwell's life and research Subsequent lectures see Section dealt with modern topics which developed out of Maxwell's work The lectures are to be published in book form to provide permanent addition to the literature on Maxwell Research The spectroscopy group under the direction of Professor Price is continuing its studies of the interaction of materials with wide range of electromagnetic radiation extending from the extreme ultraviolet to the far infrared and including electron spin resonance Studies of the intrinsic properties of crystals and the effect of impurity centres have been made High pressure 30 000 atmospheres and low temperature techniques have been applied to give information about interactions in condensed phases Ultraviolet and photoionization techniques have been applied to obtain information which is vital to the explanation of chemical processes Professor Champion's