Science Education
DOI: 10.1063/1.3061940
OVER the past half‐century, the number of science students among college graduates has dropped from about seventeen percent of the total to ten percent, a matter of steadily increasing concern to those who must deal with the realities of a shortage of trained manpower. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby addressed himself to the general subject at the Fall Convocation of the University of Chicago on December 17th.