There are cycles in the history of scientific development just as there are in the affairs of men. To keep a Society such as The American Physical Society healthy and strong in the face of these changes, we must review our objectives periodically and adjust to the demands and needs of the present. In preparing this report on the State of Physics I sought to acquire some sense of the historical development of American physics by browsing through two famous addresses given by Henry Augustus Rowland, the founder and first president of our Society.
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