Physical Science Study Committee
MAR 01, 1957
A Planning Conference Report
DOI: 10.1063/1.3060294
The newly formed Physical Science Study Committee, directed by Jerrold R. Zacharias, Elbert P. Little, and Francis L. Friedman, held its first major planning conference on December 10, 11, and 12, 1956, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The committee met to discuss and plan improved and modernized courses in physical science for secondary schools, under a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. In attendance were forty‐eight committee members, representing more than a dozen universities, government agencies, and commercial laboratories.
© 1957. American Institute of Physics
