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Physicists in California

MAR 01, 1953
This article is based on an after‐dinner address delivered at the San Diego meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 14, 1952
Lee A. DuBridge

During the past thirty years great changes have taken place in physics not only in California but throughout the country. The membership lists of the American Physical Society for 1920, 1930, 1940, and 1951 provide illuminating data on these changes.

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Lee A. DuBridge, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

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