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PROF. KOTARO HONDA has lately completed his twenty-fifth year as professor of physics in the Tohoku Imperial University, and the occasion has been commemorated by the publication of a special volume of the Science Reports of that University, contributed by his pupils and by friends from many countries. This substantial volume, of 1,126 pages, is an indication of the prominent part that Prof. Honda has played as teacher and also as director of the very active Institute for Research in Metals at Sendai. As might be expected from the special interests of Prof. Honda, from his work at Gottingen onwards, many of the papers, some sixteen in all, deal with the magnetic properties of metals, but the work of the Institute has covered a wide field in metallurgy, and most branches of the physical study of metals are represented. Another group treats of transformations of alloys in the solid state} including steels. The development of improved steels for permanent magnets has been one of the most import ant results of the investigations at Sendai, the discoveries made there having had profound industrial effects, through reducing the size of magnets and even of enabling them to take the place of electro magnets in machine tools, etc. Terrestrial magnetism is also represented, whilst other papers describe investigations in chemistry. Many well-known names are to be found among the contributors, and the occasion has been used to present surveys of the position of knowledge concerning several of the properties of alloys of current interest.
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Institute for Research in Metals, Sendai. Nature 139, 1049 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391049b0
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