College: Commission on college physics

MAR 01, 1967

John M. Fowler

SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH leads to discovery; successful teaching shares these discoveries with others. The academic physicist bears a responsibility to both teaching and research. Although the quantities displayed in figure 1 do not precisely measure performance in either area, few will quarrel with the trend their contrast dramatizes: In the last 30 years physics has made spectacular additions to the knowledge of the universe, but a diminishing fraction of the educated population is sharing this knowledge.

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References

1. “Curricula for Undergraduate Majors in Physics,” (report of a Denver conference) Am. J. Phys. 30, 153 (1962); https://doi.org/AJPIAS
“Recommendations of the Second Ann Arbor Conference on Undergraduate Curricula for Physics Majors,” Am. J. Phys. 31, 328 (1963).https://doi.org/AJPIAS
2. “Scattering in One Dimension,” A. Goldberg, J. Schwartz, H. M. Shey. (Described in CCP Newsletter 11, October 1966).
3. “An Animated Film on Symmetry,” P. Stapp, J. Bregman, A. Holden, R. Davisson.

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John M. Fowler, Commission on College Physics.