The institute in 1965—A report on the annual report

“AS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY become an increasingly important economic and political force…it behooves each scientific discipline to participate in and assume increasing responsibility for its members' contribution to that force. The ‘management’ of a scientific community must expand its activities beyond the traditional ones of publishing, holding meetings and awarding prizes.” With these words, in the introduction to the 1965 Annual Report, Van Zandt Williams enunciates the widening responsibilities of the American Institute of Physics.