Physics then and now
SEP 01, 1956
An after‐dinner address presented before the American Physical Society, March 16, 1956, Pittsburgh, Pa. A former president of the Society, Dr. Foote is now serving as Chairman of the Engineering Section of the National Academy of Sciences and as head of the National Research Council’s advisory committee to the Army’s Office of Ordnance Research in Washington, D.C.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3060090
I have been a member of the American Physical Society for forty‐six years and accordingly must be classed as an “old timer”. Chronologically speaking, I am next to the oldest surviving past president. Dr. Swann was president in 1932, and I followed him in 1933. All the preceding presidents have passed to their final reward.
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Paul D. Foote. National Academy of Sciences.
© 1956. American Institute of Physics
