Reviews of topical problems

B.M. Pontekorvo “The neutrino and its role in astrophysics” 6 1–12 (1963)

Ya.L. Al’pert, A.V. Gurevich, L.P. Pitaevskii “Effects produced by an artificial satellite rapidly moving in the ionosphere or in an interplanetary medium” 6 13–46 (1963)

A.I. Osipov, E.V. Stupochenko “Non-equilibrium energy distributions over the vibrational degrees of freedom in gases” 6 47–66 (1963)

G.P. Gurinovich, A.N. Sevchenko, K.N. Solov’ev “The spectroscopy of the porphyrins” 6 67–105 (1963)

O.P. Girin, N.G. Bakhshiev “The effect of the solvent on the positions and intensities of bands in infrared molecular spectra” 6 106–122 (1963)

E.M. Savitskii, V.F. Terekhova, O.P. Naumkin “Physico-chemical properties of the rare-earth metals, scandium, and yttrium” 6 123–142 (1963)

New instruments and measurement methods

Yu.Ya. Lembra “Methods for extracting a beam from a Synchrocyclotron” 6 143–156 (1963)

Personalia

G.V. Rozenberg “ÉDUARD VLADIMIROVICH SHPOL’SKIĬ (On the occasion of his seventieth birthday)” 6 157–160 (1963)