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JUN 01, 1949
Physicists often leave the new ground they break for others to till and to cultivate. Solid state physics, the author finds, is unique because physicists are continuing its exploitation. This, he thinks, may be a new pattern for other fields from which the frontier has withdrawn. This article is taken from a speech given at the dinner meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Solid State Physics in Cleveland on March 11, 1949.
Frederick Seitz

Solid state physics is a field which has been in a somewhat unique position for about fifteen years. Although it probably will not continue to be unique very much longer, it may set a somewhat new pattern which other fields will follow. That pattern is the secondary exploitation by physicists of a field which physicists themselves have opened.

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Frederick Seitz, Carnegie Institute of Technology.

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Volume 2, Number 6

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