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DEC 01, 1960
An informal report of the Rochester Conference

DOI: 10.1063/1.3056740

Michael J. Moravcsik

Future historians of science will find excellent material for a case study in the development of the so‐called “Rochester” conferences on high‐energy physics, the tenth of which took place at the end of August of this year.

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  1. 1. Michael J. Moravcsik, Physics Today 12, 10, 38 (Oct. 1959).https://doi.org/PHTOAD

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Michael J. Moravcsik. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore.

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Volume 13, Number 12

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