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Engineers and Scientists in Industry

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The Royal Society arranged two meetings in Oxford last year to discuss the difficulties of persuading scientists and engineers to go into industry. In this article the organizers of the meetings make some recommendations for action to help the situation.

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HOOKER, S., KURTI, N. Engineers and Scientists in Industry. Nature 217, 609–611 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217609a0

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