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Physics in perspective

JUL 01, 1972
The chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Physics Survery Committee gives a preview of the Committee’s report, a kind of road map through the committee’s recommendations.
D. Allan Bromley

Early in 1969, and as a consequence of extended discussions within and among the Committee on Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, the Division of Physical Sciences of the National Resarch Council, the Office of Science and Technology, the President’s Science Advisory Committee and several of the major federal agencies that support physics, a decision was reached to initiate a survey of the US physics enterprise. The completed report of the Survey Committee will soon be available. (See box on this Pagefor table of contents.)

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D. Allan Bromley, Yale University.

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Volume 25, Number 7

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