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IN his address delivered at the annual general meeting of the Institute of Physics in London on May 28, the president, Sir Lawrence Bragg, spoke of the vital part physicists are playing in the national effort and referred to some of the many interesting applications of the science that have been brought to fruition under the stress of the War. The main part of his address was, however, concerned with the future, and his proposals were based on the assumption that mankind is at present in the throes of one of the great mutations of history. He believes that the oncoming technological age will require many scientific workers to continue as technologists into which they have had to turn themselves in these war years, and he suggested that the present training of physicists will need considerable modification to produce more men suitable for this type of work. Anyone who has had experience as an internal examiner is familiar with the type of graduate who knows all about the constitution of the atom but cannot read a vernier scale or perform simple exercises in mensuration. “Industry”, he said, “wants physicists who have some idea how thick a piece of copper wire has to be to carry a hundred amperes.”
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Physicists during and after the War. Nature 149, 634 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149634b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149634b0