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AIP development program

OCT 01, 1956
Paul E. Klopsteg

The American Institute of Physics has announced plans for a $500 000 Development Program calculated to improve and make better use of the Institute’s facilities and its capacity to serve its members. Half of the total amount will be used to meet the expenses of renovating and moving into a newly‐purchased AIP headquarters building. An additional $200 000 will be required to defray the initial costs of an impending publications increase of some 5000 journal pages devoted to fundamental and applied research in physics. The remaining $50 000 will be used to establish a program to stimulate and coordinate efforts to encourage the study of physics in the nation’s schools. A fundraising drive is in the process of being launched, and it is hoped that $350 000 of the total will be provided by industrial employers of physicists and that the remaining $150 000 will be contributed by individual members of the Institute.

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