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The story of the American Institute of Physics

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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