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Manpower in high energy physics

DEC 01, 1960

DOI: 10.1063/1.3056746

Charles H. Braden
Jerome H. Fregeau
Glenn M. Frye

One of the important questions repeatedly raised by various scientific advisory panels and by the Congress has been that of the scientific manpower required for high‐energy physics. Concern has been expressed that the “glamour” of high‐energy physics and the large amounts of money being spent were attracting an excessive number of people away from other worthwhile areas of basic research or from necessary work in applied science and in defense laboratories.

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Charles H. Braden. Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jerome H. Fregeau. Nuclear Physics Branch, Physical Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research.

Glenn M. Frye. Case Institute of Technology.

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Volume 13, Number 12

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