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AT the meeting at the end of October commemorating the fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Institute of Physics, the replies of fifty leading industrial physicists to the question: what training is best for the scientific worker who wishes to enter industry, were summarized by Dr. Oplin, director of research at Kendall Mills, Boston. His summary has been taken up by Science Service, Washington, D.C., and circulated. His principal conclusions are: “Industries need physicists trained in the fields of optics, magnetism and acoustics”, and “too little emphasis is placed on these fields in academic training” as “the best known scientists are working on the problems of cosmic rays, atomic disintegration and transmutation” and “students naturally look up to them for guidance”. “Some training in engineering courses is advocated for future industrial physicists. Industry finds it better and easier to use a student trained adequately in physics and have him in the plant attain his additional engineering knowledge than to try to give the engineering student the additional knowledge of physics”.
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Physics in Industry. Nature 139, 146–147 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139146e0
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