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Select this Article		The quality of education in physics G. P. Harnwell


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Select this Article		Physics in Switzerland Hans H. Staub and H. Wäffler


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Select this Article		Piezoelectric Crystals and Their Applications to Ultrasonics Warren P. Mason and Hans Baerwald, Reviewer


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	+ -	Show Topic Nuclear engineering at North Carolina; Polymers and x‐ray diffraction; Radioisotope techniques at Orins; Radioisotope Handling School at Harwell; Theoretical physics in the French Alps; Lectures in physics at Wisconsin; Electron microscopy at Cornell; Science courses at Harvard Summer School; Course in servomechanisms at MIT; Photographic exhibit in Britain.

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