Responses to survey on the impact of immigration on U.S. physics, 1999.

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Responses to survey on the impact of immigration on U.S. physics, 1999.

Includes copies of overheads used in his presentation, and copies of correspondence relating to a survey of senior-level physicists regarding the impact of immigration on the state of U.S. physics that Frauenfelder presented at the Centennial American Physical Society Conference. Some of those surveyed included: Harold Agnew, Hans Bethe, N. Bloembergen, Ed Creutz, Bryce DeWitt, Freeman Dyson, Ugo Fano, Herman Feshbach, Marvin Goldberger, Charles Kittel, Leon Lederman, Wolfgang Panofsky, Norman Ramsey, Louis Rosen, Robert Sachs, Charles Slichter, Edward Teller, Charles Townes, Victor Weisskopf, John Archibald Wheeler.

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Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007

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Dyson, Freeman J.

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Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-....

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Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

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Townes, Charles Hard

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Agnew, Harold M.

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Kittel, Charles, 1916-

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Frauenfelder, Hans, 1922-....

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Feshbach, Herman

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Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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Rosen, Louis, 1918-2009

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Slichter, Charles P.

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Goldberger, Marvin

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Lederman, Leon M.

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Specialty: Physics and education. Field of work: science and technology. Work location: Physics Department at the University of Chicago, National Academy of Sciences, European Center for Nuclear Research, Academy of Math and Science, Chicago, Guggenheim Foundation, etc. Published work: books, articles, and scientific communications. From the description of Personal dossier. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78491315 ...