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Hurdling the language barrier

JAN 01, 1965
The author, who presented this paper as an invited talk at the seventh annual meeting of the AIP Corporate Associates on October 1, 1964, is professor of physics at Brown University. He is also chairman of the AIP Advisory Board on Translations.
Robert T. Beyer

When a scientist sets to work in his laboratory today, anywhere in the world, he can be assured that groups of other scientists in a dozen or more places, are engaged in work on the same problem, or on a closely related one. It would be of help for this scientist to know what the others had already done, what they were attempting, and what might be tried by them in the future. How does he go about finding this information?

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Robert T. Beyer, Brown University.

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Volume 18, Number 1

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