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A lawyer’s history lesson

APR 01, 1962
A banquet address presented on January 26 at the New York meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Henry Allen Moe

Within the month—this month—one of your many eminent members, Dr. Lee DuBridge, published an article which begins like this: “The fact that social and natural scientists seem to have so little to say to each other is one of the tragedies of modern times.”

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Henry Allen Moe, President, John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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