The physicist goes visiting…

MAR 01, 1964

Under the AAPT‐AIP Visiting Scientists Program in Physics, now in its seventh year, university physicists with both research and teaching interests will visit some 130 college physics departments in 1963–64. The author of the following commentary on one such visit and the college program as a whole is William W. Watson, professor of physics at Yale University, who is currently in charge of the program.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3051466

W. W. Watson

One afternoon recently Professor David Lazarus of the University of Illinois packed his bag, including slides and notes on his research, drove to the Chicago Airport, flew to Dayton, Ohio, and was met at that airport by Professor David F. Griffing of Miami University. For the following two days Dr. Lazarus was a visitor to the Miami Physics Department under the auspices of the Visiting Scientists Program in Physics, sponsored jointly by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics with the support of the National Science Foundation. He reports that the staff of the department and their exceptionally large number of physics majors kept him steadily “on the go”, and that the visit was “a fine and rewarding experience”. The department’s report states that they found their visitor helpful, stimulating, and enjoyable, and that the informal discussions with the physics students were a tremendous success.