International Summer Course

J. S. Bell, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Proceedings of the Enrico Fermi International Summer School, Course 40, Academic Press, New York, 1971. 

Course on Metrology and Fundamental Constants, "International Summer School Enrico Fermi, Varenna, July 1976, Societe Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, 1980. 

I. Z. Fisher, in M. S. Green, (Ed.), Proc. Internal. Summer School Enrico Fermi 1970, Course 51 (Varenna, Italy), Academic, New York, 1971. 

Electromagnetic Transport in Solids Optical Properties and Plasma Effects, H. Ehrenreich, in Optical Properties of Solids, ed. J. Tauc (Course 34 of E. Fermi International Summer School, Varenna, Italy, 1966). 

In the summer of 2004, the NATO A.S.I. on the subject Optical Chemical Sensors was organised in Erice, Sicily. This NATO A.S.I. was the 40th Course of the International School of Quantum Electronics, under the auspices of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture and was directed by Dr. J. Homola of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronic (IREE) of the Academy of Sciences in Prague and by Dr. F.Baldini of the Nello Carrara Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC-CNR). It is also the fourth course in the framework of the ASCOS (Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors) series, founded in 1999 by Prof. Otto Wolfbeis. This book presents the Proceedings of this advanced course providing a deep overview of both the fundamentals of optical chemical sensing and the applications of chemical sensors. 

The idea came as a surprise I could change my major. I took out the Emory catalog to see if I could fiilfill the requirements to enter medical school after one more year at Emory. It could be done, but the full medical education would take the next year of college, four years in medical school, and two years as an intern. I would be done seven years from now No, I don t have that much time. I consulted a friend and chemistry major, Nat Robertson, about switching to chemistry. As part of my science requirement, I had taken a year of freshman chemistry. Nat showed me that if I took five courses in summer school that year and four courses each quarter the next year, I could graduate in chemistry. I received special permission to take five courses in summer school, followed Nat s plan, and graduated at age twenty with a major in chemistry in June 1941. 

L. L. Beecroft, J. Bicerano and J. T. Seitz, unpublished calculations. Some of this work was a part of L. L. Beecroft s project as a summer intern at Dow, and was presented by her as a course report at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (late 1989). 

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