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High‐energy physics migration

AUG 01, 1966
Physics Today

High‐energy physics, in its account on the PhD manpower ledger, is a creditor rather than a debtor. The surplus goes largely into teaching and the space effort. So concludes J. Howard McMillen, program director for elementary‐particle physics at the National Science Foundation, who has just completed a survey of 215 high‐energy experimentalists in three PhD classes.

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