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Some results of the 1962 physics roster

APR 01, 1964
Sylvia Barisch

The National Science Foundation has maintained the National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel for all of the natural sciences and psychology for the past decade. Originally designed to provide the basis for a pool of highly skilled manpower in times of national emergency, this function has been overshadowed by the value the Register has come to have as the best available source of statistical information on the American scientific community.

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Sylvia Barisch, American Institute of Physics.

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