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Balance Needed

JUN 01, 1950
Manpower picture chancing for science
Physics Today

Far more scientists have been coming off the production line in the last few years than was anticipated by the Steelman Report. In an article on “The Changing Manpower Picture” in the March issue of The Scientific Monthly, Philip N. Powers, advisor on scientific personnel with the Atomic Energy Commission, points out that the problem has now become one of balancing supply with demand rather than filling up the post‐war deficiency in technical and scientific personnel.

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