The formation of The Physics Teacher (TPT) journal was proposed in 1961, and the first issue was published in April 1963. I was in fifth grade. Little did I know that TPT would touch my life many times during the next 50 years. Let me share some observations from the first issue of each decade, beginning in 1963 and continuing until 2013.
REFERENCES
1.
Phys. Teach.
1
, 4
(April 1963
).2.
Frank
Verbrugge
, “Editorial
,” Phys. Teach.
1
, 32
(Jan. 1962
).3.
Phys. Teach.
11
, 9
(Jan. 1973
).4.
Ref. 2.
5.
Cliff
Swartz
, Cliff Nodes, Editorials from The Physics Teacher
(Johns Hopkins University Press
, Baltimore
, 2006
), p. 69
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