International opportunities for physicists

SEP 01, 1970

Physicists not too domesticated to consider working abroad can teach or do research while helping to improve international understanding

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022332

Marian S. Rothenberg

“One of the best ways for the US to promote good relations with other countries is to export its science and technology, but, up until very lately, our scientists have been strongly domesticated.” William H. Taft III, special assistant in the State Department’s Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Affairs, offered this opinion and suggested that if we could somehow link younger scientists with, tor example, the Peace Corps and the spirit of adventure, it would be to our advantage

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