AIP documentation research project

OCT 01, 1960

R.E. Maizell, who for the past two years has been in chatge of the AIP’s program of Research in physics documentation and publishing, came to the Institute in 1958 from the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. In August of this year he returned to Olin Mathieson as supervisor of technical information at the firm’s Research Laboratories in new Haven, Conn.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3062768

R. E. Maizell

One of the major problems facing the physicist today is that of finding enough time and energy to keep up with the technical literature in areas of research in which he is involved. Some measure of his dilemma may be understood simply in terms of the rising abundance of reading matter in physics. In 1950, the American Institute of Physics and the Member Societies published 13 672 journal pages; in 1959 there were published 23 022 pages, not including the Soviet translation journals and Physical Review Letters.

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R. E. Maizell, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, Research Laboratories, New Haven, Conn..