AIP is host to society officers and its corporate associates

NOV 01, 1968

As government and industry tighten research budgets, physicists worry about where the money will come from to explore new frontiers of pure and applied research.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034588

John P. Wiley

STAFF MEMBERS of the American Institute of Physics, AIP Corporate Associates and officers of member societies met in New York in late September. They heard assessments of the impact of changing governmental and industrial policies on physics, talks on the frontiers of pure and applied physics, and reports on institute operations from Director H. William Koch and AIP division heads.

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