Gorter C.J. (Ed.) Progress in Low Temperature Physics, Volume III

Amsterdam: North-Holland Pablishing Company, 1961, -511 p.When the second volume of "Progress in low temperature physics" had been completed I did not intend to edit more books of the same character. I had found out that I prefer pondering and reading about questions that fascinate me above editing books about them, and that I have already too many duties of an administrational or managerial character. Moreover I was - in spite of the good reception which, in general, the two volumes found - not quite convinced of their indispensability.
But a few near colleagues, and also the publishers, insisted on continuing the series. And so I decided to put the question in personal conversations before a number of prominent low temperature physicists whom I met in 1959 at a few international conferences. In order not to let amiability determine their advice, I questioned the benefit of Progress-books in general and asked about their experience on the usefulness of such books. Somewhat to my disappointment the result of the inquiry was remarkably positive. The only objections I encountered were about the considerable time required for writing a review paper, which time might have been spent more profitably by doing research or complementing one's general education. Curiously enough, the few physicists that adhered to that view all belonged, apart from myself, to the same nationality. And two of them were unhappily looking forward to writing a review paper. In the positive reactions it was stressed that students who have to work themselves into a field and research workers in other areas who got interested in such a field derive great profit from a collection of review papers.Vortex lines in liquid helium II, W.F. Vinen
Helium ions in liquid helium II, G. Careri
The nature of the λ-transition in liquid helium, M.J Buckingham and W.M. Fairbank
Liquid and solid ³He, E.R. Grilly and E.F. Hammel
³He cryostats, K.W. Taconis
Recent developments in superconductivity, J. Bardeen and J.R. Schrieffer
Electron resonances in metals, M.Ya. Azbel' and I.M. Lifshitz
Orientation of atomic nuclei at low temperatures II, W.J. Huiskamp and H.A. Tolhoek
Solid state masers, N. Bloembergen
The equation of state and the transport properties of the hydrogenic molecules, J.J.M. Beenakker
Some solid-gas equilibria at low temperatures, Z. Dokoupil