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AIP annual report 1963

MAY 01, 1964
This review of activities of the past year has been prepared by the director of the American Institute of Physics and accepted by the AIP Governing Board as the Institute’s annual report to its member organizations.
Elmer Hutchisson

The year 1963 saw many exciting advances in physics, including such exotic items as gravitational collapse, anti‐Xi particles, bootstrap dynamics, to say nothing of the extraordinary fertility of new ideas in the fields of lasers and plasmas. More appropriate, however, for discussion in an AIP report are recent striking developments in what one might more properly call the sociology of physics.

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Elmer Hutchisson, American Institute of Physics.

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Volume 17, Number 5

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