High-speed rotation

Upon this occasion the speaker usually reviews some scientific or technical subject with which he is or has been associated or he discusses current problems involving the role of physics in human affairs. Although the latter subject certainly is most timely and important, I shall address myself to the former. I will attempt to discuss some applications of high-speed rotation to science with special emphasis upon problems of centrifuging. No effort will be made to review adequately the subject or to emphasize the most important work done in the field. Instead I will discuss some of the work that has interested me personally. Unfortunately time is not available to mention properly all of my collaborators and students to whom should go most of the credit for the work.