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World Scientific to Publish Wolf Volumes
  he Wolf Foundation was set up in 1975 by Dr Ricardo Subirana Lobo Wolf. An inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, Dr Wolf donated US$10 million to create the initial endowment fund of the Wolf Foundation. Since 1978, five or six prizes have been awarded annually to outstanding scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind. The winners are selected by an international committee made up of renowned experts from each field.
For the benefit of education and dissemination of knowledge, World Scientific is planning to publish a series of books that is of a similar nature to the Nobel Lectures series. The Wolf Foundation — which is based in Israel — has agreed in principle to this project and preparations are under way. In contrast to the Nobel Lectures, however, the Wolf series will not be a compilation of acceptance lectures. The initial volume will most likely be made up of the biographies and important research papers of the Wolf prize winners in mathematics.
Publication of the Wolf volumes will complement that of the Nobel Lectures series, and confirm World Scientific's status as a world-class publisher.
Imperial College Press: An Update
  mperial College Press relocated at the start of the year to larger premises, as staff levels are expected to rise to keep up with our rapid development. The new office is still within the Imperial College campus, and provides a more spacious working environment and a more pleasant setting for meeting authors and discussing new projects.
The Press continues to publish and commission more titles every month. Recent new projects include a series on space technology, and another on electrical and computer engineering. The first volume in the space technology series, Spacecraft Power Systems, is due out by the end of the year, and it is hoped the series will capture the excitement and rapid advances in the expanding arena of space engineering and satellite technology.
As the Press has grown and now publishes in more areas of science, we have invited more advisors to sit on our editorial advisory board. Our list of distinguished advisors now includes:
Lord Porter, OM, FRS
Prof P Dowling, FEng, FRS
Prof D J Goodman
Prof M Jacob
Sir J Mason, CB, FRS, DSc
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Prof K Sikora, FRCP, FRCR
Prof I Aleksander
Sir G Wolstenholme
Prof D Norburn
Prof C Isham
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Best-selling titles over the past few months include W Baumjohann and R A Treumann's Basic Space Plasma Physics, N S Hakim's Introduction to Organ Transplantation, S Goodlad's Speaking Technically, and R Balescu's Statistical Dynamics.
ICP's new address:
203 Electrical Engineering Building
Imperial College
London SW7 2BT
United Kingdom
Phone: 0171 594-9568/591-0876
Fax: 0171 589-2790
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