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International cooperation in physics

JAN 01, 1975
Participants at AIP’s Corporate Associates Meeting call for increased internationalism on a world‐wide scale.
John T. Scott

Physics is the uniquely international science. No other science is so closely tied, in all countries, to budgetary and regulatory agencies at the government level, and so no other science is as well placed as physics to implement cooperative ventures cutting across national boundaries. And its followers communicate in an international language that transcends any trivial difficulties over mere words; physicists around the world may not always agree, but at least they know what their foreign counterparts are saying and publishing.

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John T. Scott. PHYSICS TODAY.

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Volume 28, Number 1

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