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APS‐AAPT meet in San Francisco

JAN 01, 1978
This year’s joint meeting features sessions on earthquake prediction, Earth resources studies, the application of physics to the petroleum industry and the changing role of women in the scientific community.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3001831

Robin A. White

San Francisco will host this year’s joint annual meeting of The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers. The sessions will take place Sunday through Thursday, 22–26 January 1978 at the San Francisco Hilton with auxiliary facilities at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel.

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Robin A. White. PHYSICS TODAY.

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Volume 31, Number 1

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