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JAN 01, 1956

Since its founding in 1931, the American Institute of Physics has devoted its attention to the development of physics as a field of human activity and to the economy of publishing the physics journals. In both respects there was a crisis in 1929. The Institute was founded to meet the crisis and has played a leading role in solving the problems confronting the physics field to the present time.

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Henry A. Barton, American Institute of Physics.

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Volume 9, Number 1

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