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Teaching physics in Java

FEB 01, 1957
The following impressions are those of an American physicist who has devoted nearly three years to the task of organizing a modern physics department at the University of Indonesia.
W. C. Dickinson

It was more than two years ago, the summer of 1954, over after‐dinner coffee at the home of friends in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Our host sighed with obvious relief, “I pictured you, Bill, going to Indonesia to teach physics in a grass hut to students dressed in loin cloths. Now I feel much better!”

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W. C. Dickinson, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

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