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The status‐discussion meeting as an antidote to superconferences

OCT 01, 1968
Researchers actively engaged in a fairly narrow field of physjcs may exchange ideas in a more effective manner by meeting in small informal groups rather than in large formal conferences.
Michael J. Moravcsik

IN 1931 ENRICO FERMI organized a small meeting to deal with the new, small field of nuclear physics. The handful of active and generally young physicists who were invited each reviewed a different aspect of nuclear physics. They spent the rest of this status‐discussion meeting in informal discussions, accentuated by excursions.

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Michael J. Moravcsik, University of Oregon.

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