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Initial Employment of Physics Doctorate Recipients: Class of 1992

DEC 01, 1993
Today’s job market requires patience, flexibility and perhaps some creativity on the part of recent physics graduates.
Susanne D. Ellis

The current folklore regarding today’s job market for recent physics PhD recipients describes a dichotomy between discouragement and the challenge to be imaginative. Hard statistics are needed to help put into perspective the much publicized but meager anecdotal information about the initial employment of physics doctorate recipients in the 1990s. Such data are available from a battery of annual surveys conducted by the American Institute of Physics.

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References

  1. 1. Details on these findings can be found in S. D. Ellis, “Physics Manpower 1973: Education and Employment Studies,” pub. R255, AIP, New York (August 1973).

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Susanne D. Ellis, American, Institute of Physics.

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Volume 46, Number 12

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