Physicists in industry
DOI: 10.1063/1.3070809
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.
References
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.
