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Physicists in industry

APR 01, 1972
A physicist well matched to his job can expect rewards and satisfaction from an industrial career that are not always available in academic life.
Donald L. Hammond

My aim here is to state positively that in going into industry a physicist has every opportunity for a rewarding, satisfying and successful career. The match between him and industry will depend both on his training and on the kind of person he is, and I will accordingly have something to say about the curriculum for physicists, both in physics areas and related fields, and about desirable personality traits for a physicist in industry. In addition I will discuss the responsibilities of industry to the physicist and comment briefly on the future prospects for the job market, where I see a probable steady, though small, increase in the number of positions that will become available.

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References

  1. 1. S. D. Ellis, Work Complex Study: The Match between Academic Training and Employment of Physicists, AIP Publication no. R 224 (1969).

More about the authors

Donald L. Hammond, Physical Electronics Laboratory of Hewlett‐Packard, Palo Alto, California.

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