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November 1948
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters to the Editor
Articles
Investment in basic research
Physics Today 1 (7), 6–9 (1948);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066224
The Navy through the Office of Naval Research is supporting basic research in about 150 colleges and nonprofit institutions in thirty‐six states, the Territory of Alaska, and the District of Columbia. The history, philosophy, and operation of this program are related by the head of its Physical Sciences Division.
…pigtails on a Stratoliner
Physics Today 1 (7), 10–14 (1948);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066180
Engineers and physicists labored and brought forth…
Notes from Abroad
Institute Doings
Books
Handbook of Scientific and Technical Societies and Institutions of the United States and Canada
Physics Today 1 (7), 28 (1948);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3066202
Journal Notes
News and Views
Whereabouts
Calendar of Events
The lessons learned from ephemeral nuclei
Witold Nazarewicz; Lee G. Sobotka
FYI science policy briefs
Lindsay McKenzie; Jacob Taylor