Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

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Response to early 1930s Ph.D.s Survey, 1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82065612

File consists of: letter summarizing Goldman's education at the University of Cincinnati under Irwin H. Solt and at Harvard University with Edwin C. Kemble; his work at RCA Photophone and General Electric Company; and his research position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in information theory, theoretical physics, and biology. Respondents were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfctions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.

4 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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