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During most of the decade of the 1950's, the production of physics doctorates was on a plateau at about 500 per year. Recent evidence is that it has begun to climb again, at about the long‐term rate of an increase of 7&percent; per annum. The data on physics doctorate output, shown in Table 1 and in Figure 1, come from the Doctorate Records File of the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council. Figure 1 is plotted on semilogarithmic paper so that a given percentage rate of increase will appear as a straight line. For the last four years, the increase each year has come very near to the 7&percent; per annum rate of increase, which, over many decades, tends to characterize doctorate output in all fields combined.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057794

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

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A conference to discuss space‐charge effects in dielectrics was held in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., on June 13, 14, and 15, 1962. Such a conference was originally proposed by Marvin Silver of the Office of Army Research (Durham) and Abraham Many of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A committee consisting of Many, Silver, David Fox, Albert Rose, Fritz Sto¨ckmann, and George Warfield was formed to help in selecting the papers and planning the details of the meeting.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057795

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

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I was invited to speak on the occasion of the 1500th Regular Meeting of the Society, and of course am delighted to be able to come and do it. But those who conveyed the invitation could not refrain from reminding me that I owed the Society a retiring presidential address. I was president in 1951, and it was in the fall of that year that I departed hastily to go to Corning Glass Works to be director of research. That was a very interesting experience, and I am still connected with the glass business, though I am also doing professing. I started my career in experimental physics and lasted one day. When I started work on a doctoral thesis at the University of California in 1925 I had to set up a vacuum system. All experimental physicists in those days had to get a Cenco pump on the floor and glass tubing up to something that was on the table. I started out like all the rest but broke so much glass the first day that they suggested I go into theoretical physics. I told this story at Corning after I became their director of research. Mr. Amory Houghton, chairman of the board, who is now our ambassador to France, said, “Isn't it good that at last you are in a place where you can't possibly break enough glass to make any difference.”

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057797

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

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The International Conference on Spectroscopy was held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., from Monday, June 18, through Friday, June 22, 1962. It was the Xth Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale; other colloquia were held previously in Amsterdam, Lie´ge, Lucerne, and Lyons. Sponsors were the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), and the University of Maryland chemistry department. Nearly 1000 scientists attended. Chemists and physicists were well represented. The Conference provided communication between spectroscopists of various countries throughout the world and made known the most recent advances in research in both fundamental and applied spectroscopy.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057798

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057799

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057802

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057803

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057804

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057805

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057806

出版商:AIP    

年代:1962

数据来源: AIP