摘要:

Since 1930, when Karl T. Compton became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about 500 graduate students have been awarded doctoral degrees in physics by MIT. This corresponds to more than a twentieth of the total output of ScD's and PhD's in physics in the United States during these thirty years. In connection with the Institute's Centennial Celebration this year the administration has instituted a number of historical surveys of students and alumni. Because the doctoral alumni in physics since 1930 constitute a large enough sample for statistical validity and because records of these alumni are fairly complete and uniform in quality throughout the period, a detailed study of this group was authorized.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057689

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

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It is not often that the birth of a Navy office, which certainly sounds like like a cold, administrative affair, makes history worth recording. But the birth of the Office of Naval Research was such an interesting one, participated in by so many famous and brilliant personalities, that a record of the events should serve a useful purpose. It might even bring inspiration to those who daily continue the struggle to evolve constructive changes in large government departments.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057690

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

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Like so many other physicists, I emerged into the postwar climate of our country in the fall of 1945, having spent nearly six years on work that bordered more nearly on applied than pure science. The first part of the war had been devoted to ordnance and ballistics, the intermediate part to the development of radar components, such as diodes and oscilloscope screens, and the last part to the Plutonium Project at Chicago—all climaxed by a number of months as one of the scientific intelligence officers in SHAEF. With my colleagues at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, plans were laid for research in the coming period. We hoped that we could find the funds to match our dreams even modestly.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057691

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

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In modern science and technology it is not unusual for a research activity to involve more than one scientific discipline. Among the newer research endeavors, perhaps none demonstrates such a dual character more clearly than the field of organic semiconductors, which deeply involves both semiconductor physics and organic chemistry. One result of this dichotomy is that there exists no common forum where research results can be presented and discussed by both physicists and organic chemists. Similarly, it is difficult for industrial organizations in electronics, chemical, and semiconductor activities to learn the latest information concerning rapidly expanding research on organic semiconductors.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057692

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

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In an article entitled “Individual Departmental Libraries vs. Consolidated Science Libraries” (Physics Today, May 1961, pp. 40–41.), Professor D. A. Wells of the University of Cincinnati reported on a poll of 126 chairmen of physics departments with respect to their opinions of consolidated science libraries. His results indicated that 84 “were strongly in favor of departmental libraries”, 17 “made no positive commitment”, 3 favored consolidation, and 22 did not reply. Professor Wells follows these statistics, which he does not refine to show which of his respondents were and which were not served by a centralized library, with a series of quotations setting forth the arguments favoring individual departmental libraries. But, he fails to present the reasoning for the other side. Without providing the reader with the opportunity to judge for himself, and by carefully suppressing any point of view that differs from his own, he concludes: “The few arguments which may be advanced in favor of the consolidated library can easily be given their proper perspective.” This is scarcely scientific objectivity. In the interest, then, of permitting the reviewer to establish his own perspective, it would seem only proper and fair to enumerate arguments in support of consolidation.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057693

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057694

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057695

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057697

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057698

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057699

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP