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THE avowed purpose of the American Institute of Physics is "the advancement and diffusion of physics and its applications to human welfare". For the research worker, the teacher, the theoretical or experimental physicist, and the investigator engaged in pure or applied science, the Institute or its member societies publish eight journals of very high merit. They are the well-known Physical Review, Review of Modern Physics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, American Journal of Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Chemical Physics and the Journal of Applied Physics. To these, in order to fulfil an ever-growing demand for a medium for relatively non-technical surveys of physics progress, there has recently been added Physics Today. This new monthly magazine (published by the New York American Institute, May 1948 ; 50 cents) is described as "a general-interest journal on physics", and its editor is Dr. D. A. Katcher.
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Physics To-day . Nature 162, 988 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162988a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162988a0