In 1991 I attended my 30th consecutive March meeting of The American Physical Society, held in Cincinnati. This anniversary made me reflect on the changes I have seen in the field since I listened to my first ten‐minute talk in Baltimore in 1962. I believe it was obvious to many in Cincinnati that there is a malaise affecting our field that was not present 30 or even 10 years ago. By “our field,” I mean what is variously called solid‐state physics, condensed matter physics, materials physics and materials science.
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R. E. Gomory, IEEE Spectrum, October 1990, p. 82.
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