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Young professional physicists

SEP 01, 1950
Bernard C. Murdoch
Marsh W. White

From 1936 to 1948 approximately 20,000 doctorates in the natural and applied sciences were granted in the United States. Of these, nearly 1700 were in physics. What has happened to these young people? In what types of work are they now engaged? Have they remained in physics or some very closely related discipline?

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Bernard C. Murdoch, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio.

Marsh W. White, Pennsylvania State College.

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Volume 3, Number 9

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