Supply and demand for physicists

APR 01, 1970

It’s getting harder for new PhD’s to fit into a declining job market. At the same time, industrial employers are complaining about their overspecialization and disdain for applied research.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022062

Arnold A. Strassenburg

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION for physicists is at present in a state of imbalance, with supply exceeding demand, and there is no evidence for any rapid improvement. The facts, opinions and causes surrounding the employment problem have been and will continue to be explored by the Education and Manpower Division of the American Institute of Physics. Surveys of recently employed PhD’s, employers and graduate and undergraduate students, plus data collected by the AIP Placement Service, gauge the current job market and foresee future difficulties.

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More about the authors

Arnold A. Strassenburg, State University of New York, Stony Brook.