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APS‐AAPT meet in Chicago

JAN 01, 1970
Highlights include 68 invited papers and special programs on physics employment and on community relations. At general‐interest sessions, papers on Apollo 11 results, molecules in space and nuclear medicine will be given.
Marian S. Rothenberg

The joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers, to be held 26–29 Jan. in the Palmer House, Chicago will feature programs on the nontechnical problems of physicists as well as a full schedule of topical papers, business meetings and awards ceremonies. APS has scheduled a special session on physics and society for Tuesday evening; AAPT has organized a panel, to be presided over by Melba Phillips, that will discuss the physics employment situation. “Impedance matching” lectures, designed to help students understand the topical papers, have been organized by the Society of Physics Students.

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