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Survey of graduate students in physics

JUN 01, 1962

DOI: 10.1063/1.3058225

R. Bruce Lindsay
Leonard O. Olsen

The President of the United States referred in his press conference of January 15, 1962, to manpower studies published by the National Science Foundation, and stated: “This has been a matter of some concern to me for some time because one of the most critical problems facing this nation is the inadequacy of scientific and technical manpower to satisfy the expanding requirements of this country’s research and development efforts in the near future.”

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Henry A. Barton. American Institute of Physics.

R. Bruce Lindsay. Brown University.

Leonard O. Olsen. US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif..

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Volume 15, Number 6

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