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The Young Physicist

JUN 01, 1949
A new society?

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066541

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The present relationship between the professional physics societies and the newcomers to the field was considered by a group of some forty physicists, many of them heads of physics departments at colleges and universities in various parts of the country, who met at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on April 27. The meeting was concerned particularly with the possibility that some further organizational development geared to the special needs of students might in large measure eliminate certain problems now facing the graduate and undergraduate physicist.

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