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Science 20 February 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5354, p. 1128
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5354.1128
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CAREERS:
Young Physicists Despair of Tenured Jobs

James Glanz

New studies indicate that only a tiny fraction of new physics Ph.D.s can expect to move from a postdoc to plum faculty job. Because most of the new jobs for physicists have appeared in "nontraditional" areas such as engineering and finance, the American Physical Society is now boosting efforts to prepare new physicists for careers outside academia.

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