Physics: A Personal Perspective

DEC 01, 1994

The former president of the American Physical Society reflects on the challenges facing both the society and physics at large in the light of falling budgets, a revamped rationale for supporting science and the advance of the information age.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881408

Donald N. Langenberg

I want to present a very personal perspective on physics and its current circumstances. I’d like to emphasize the word “personal.” I do not assume my perspective has general validity or global significance. I do hope it will be of some interest to some of you and that it will perhaps provoke some useful thoughts about the compelling calling we share.

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Donald N. Langenberg. University of Maryland.

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