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Physics in France

DEC 01, 1951
As seen through the eyes of a European physicist who came to America to live and work and who, as a Fulbright Fellow, has spent the past year as a visiting lecturer in France.
Victor F. Weisskopf

During a good part of the school year, 1950–51, the author had the opportunity to be in Paris as a guest professor at the Sorbonne University. Chairs for Foreign Professors have been recently established at several French universities with the purpose of inviting scientists from abroad for a limited time in order to promote the exchange of ideas between France and other countries.

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Victor F. Weisskopf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Volume 4, Number 12

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