The very last session of the conference looked at the role of the Chapel Hill conference in the development of general relativity and had four speakers, two of whom were present at the conference. The first talk by Peter Saulson discussion how a presentation by Felix Pirani at the conference in 1957 convinced relativists that gravitational waves were a real phenomenon. Dieter Brill then discussed the contributions to the conference from John Wheeler’s research group, in which he was a graduate student at the time. Historian Dean Rickles then gave the background to the conference’s organization and planning and he was followed by Josh Goldberg who, in his role at the Air Force’s research lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force base was responsible for funding the conference. The session was remarkably well attended considering it came at the end of the conference and the talks were all very interesting and enjoyed by the audience, who stayed on afterwards for an animated and extended discussion of the conference. This was able facilitated by session chair Don Salisbury.

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