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NRC‐AIP Conference on the Production of Physicists: Recommendations

JUN 01, 1955
Recommendations of the Conference

DOI: 10.1063/1.3062040

Robert S. Shankland
Philip Johnson
M. H. Trytten
W. W. Grigorieff

The present shortage of physicists and the anticipated worsening of this situation in the future must be the concern of all career physicists who acknowledge a responsibility to their profession and to the well‐being of the nation. This must be a compelling, personal concern even though it is obvious that the situation has so many aspects, extending throughout the entire educational and research activities of the nation, that physicists acting alone cannot solve the problem.

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Volume 8, Number 6

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