Chapter VII ferromagnetic materials

Intense activity continues in the field of magnetism both because of the practical importance of magnetic materials with varied electro-magnetic characteristics and because of the techniques it provides for studying the physics and chemistry of the solid state. The wide interest in this subject was reflected by the number of conferences during 1956 which were devoted to magnetism. There was an International Colloquium in Algiers, Algeria, on the present state of knowledge of the electrical and magnetic properties of thin metallic films in relation to their structure which was reported in J. phys. radium 17, No. 3, (March 1956). In Canada there was a colloquium on transport phenomena which included a few papers related to magnetism which are not reported in this bibliography. This colloquium was published in the Can. J. Phys. 34, No. 12a (1956). A colloquium at Harvard, devoted primarily to microwave ferrites and their applications, was published in Proc. I.R.E. 44, No. 10 (Oct. 1956). There was also a convention on ferrites in London from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 1956, which covered a broader range of ferrites and ferrite applications. The papers and discussion will be published In Proc. I.E.E. 104B (1957). There was a general conference on magnetism and magnetic materials in Boston, Mass., from October 16–18, 1956, which was sponsored by the A.I.E.E. in cooperation with the American Phys. Soc., the A.I.M.M.E., and the I.R.E. This was published by the A.I.E.E. in February, 1957. Finally there was a conference on the physics of magnetic phenomena in Moscow from May 23–31, 1956. A report on this conference by S. V. Vonsovskii appeared in Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk 60, No. 4 (1956). Although many of the papers which appear in these collections have been mentioned below, there was no attempt to be exhaustive since anyone working in the field will want to acquire these collections for convenient reference.