Show royal society y T I 1 m bids two IT U physicists two of americas outstanding physicists loth members of 0 the university of utah faculty have been invited by the royal society 0 of I 1 london to participate in a sampo 8 on may 5 1955 professors walter al elsasser sasser and eugene N parker are two of the he five americans who have been asked to take part lu in a symposium on magneto hydrodynamics including its geophysical and astronomical cal applications the royal hoyal society of london has invited approximately 20 of the worlds top scientists to the 1955 conference in addition to the five americans four scientists have been invited from the european Lontin continent ent and the remainder will come from the british empire according to dr li EI lsasser sasser the will consist consia of 0 scientific work dealing with the magnetism of the sun sun spots and cosmic lays elsasser listed the possibility of an improved magnetic compass and reduced static lu radio communications as two practical applications for the knowledge which will come out of the conference both dr elsasser El and dr park er have published numerous nume roua papers lu in their respective fields elsaser is a native of mannheim germany and has been a pro tensor of physics at the university ot of utah since 1950 parker was born in houghton michigan and came to the university of 0 utah after receiving his phd at the california institute of I technology doth both physicists have conducted extensive research in the field of sun magnetism and astl sun n spots during the past two years under a naval research grant |