Employment problems ofyoung physicists

Information on the present attitudes of young scientists toward their prospective employment is useful in assessing the effects of graduate training, in evaluating the motivations of students, in aiding placement offices to find suitable jobs for graduates, and in many other ways. The increasing demand for scientists in our growing industrial system and in government defense laboratories requires accurate estimates of the supply of young scientists and of how they are being assimilated. Considerable evidence has been presented to show that the numbers now being trained are insuffident to meet future needs. A new problem has arisen in recent years, concerning the security status of scientists. It is of interest to know, for example, whether the unpleasant publicity given to several prominent security clearance cases has had a significant effect on the willingness of young Scientists to accept employment which requires Security clearence.

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