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AAPT–APS meeting returns to New York

JAN 01, 1969
The number of contributed papers has dropped for the first time since World War II, possibly as a result of funding cuts which prohibited travel to the meeting.
John P. Wiley

THE JOINT ANNUAL MEETING of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers returns to the New York Hilton 3–6 Feb. after its first venture to Chicago last year. Lagging support for physics promises to be a leading topic of hallway conversation, perhaps symbolized by the first drop in the number of contributed papers at a New York APS meeting since 1945.

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