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Physics at Oak Ridge

JUN 01, 1950
These remarks on the role of physics and of physicists in current nuclear energy development are based on an address given at the banquet of the American Physical Society in Oak Ridge on March 17, 1950.
Alvin M. Weinberg

The research effort here in Oak Ridge bears in some measure on almost every phase of the country’s atomic energy program. For the laboratory here—unlike the national laboratories at Argonne, Brookhaven, Berkeley, Ames, and Los Alamos—has no single primary function but has many different areas in which it contributes, with about equal emphasis, to the development of atomic energy technology.

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Alvin M. Weinberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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