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FEB 01, 1955
Physics Today

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.

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