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Special Issue: 50 Years of Computers and Physicists

OCT 01, 1996

DOI: 10.1063/1.881525

Fifty years ago, a physics graduate student burning the midnight oil might labor for several years with a lab notebook, Marchant desk calculator and graph paper. Today the time it takes to receive the PhD might be even longer, but today’s tools were probably never dreamt of by that struggling student of the past.

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