The President’s special assistant for science and technology addresses the American Physical Society

Physics in America is flourishing; it is a robust active science and nothing makes that point better than the number, quality, and variety of researches being reported and discussed at this meeting. One sees progress in high‐energy particle physics, in theoretical physics, in nuclear‐structure physics, in studies of solids, in the renascent optics connected with lasers, as well as in other areas. Perhaps more than in the formal program, one feels its vitality in the youth of the participants, the little knots of intense people, earnestly engaged in sometimes excited discussion in the corridors and outside the formal meeting rooms. It is not hard to understand that physics in our country occupies a leading position in the world today.

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