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AIP Today‐ and Tomorrow

NOV 01, 1981
Journal publishing, the main activity of AIP serves 60 times more readers than in 1931 and is entering the elctronic era.
H. William Koch

Certainly one of the most evident and exciting aspects of American physics during the last fifty years has been its phenomenal growth—growth in the number of individuals committed to the profession, growth in the amount and variety of their research experiences, and growth in the stature of physics as a profession of eminence both within and outside the wider community of science. Hand in hand with this vital development of the profession has been the equally prominent evolution of the organization that serves it—the organization that is dedicated to its support and is sensitive to its proclivities—the American Institute of Physics.

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Volume 34, Number 11

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