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The American Association of Physics Teachers

OCT 01, 1951
Physics Today

During the twenty‐one years that have passed since the American Association of Physics Teachers was first organized, there has been a constantly increasing demand for the services of physicists qualified to do research in university, government, and industrial laboratories, and thus a corresponding increase in the need for qualified teachers of physics to train students. The importance of high teaching standards in the physics field as a basic condition for the training of physicists of the calibre required in modern research has nowhere been recognized more fully than within the physics teachers’ own professional organization.

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Volume 4, Number 10

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