Employment preferences of physicists

OCT 01, 1957

The authors of the present study, J. N. Gadel and G. A. Peters, are employed as physicist and psychologist, respectively, in the Ammunition Research Laboratory of the Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N.J. They note that the interpretations suggested in the article are their own and do not necessarily reflect official views.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3060126

J. N. Gadel

A. Peters

The effort being expended to recruit physicists prompted the authors to look into the preferences of physicists seeking employment. A convenient, although possibly biased, sample of such physicists consists of those utilizing the Placement Service of the American Institute of Physics.

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J. N. Gadel, Ammunition Research Laboratory of the Picatinny Arsenal, Dover.

A. Peters, Ammunition Research Laboratory of the Picatinny Arsenal, Dover.

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