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The visiting scientists program in physics

SEP 01, 1958

DOI: 10.1063/1.3062727

W. C. Kelly

Academic year 1957–58 was the first year of the visiting physicists program. Seventy‐five prominent physicists packed their bags and, putting aside research and administration for a few days, set out on visits to colleges to talk about physics. Another twenty‐eight visited high schools for a day. The activities during the visits left no doubt that physicists have a common interest in educational problems and that progress in solving the problems requires cooperation of the kind that made the visits possible.

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W. C. Kelly. Education Department, American Institute of Physics.

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Volume 11, Number 9

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