미국물리협회(AIP)와 순수/응용 물리학자들의 갈등The AIP and the Conflict between Pure Physicists and Applied Physicists
- Other Titles
- The AIP and the Conflict between Pure Physicists and Applied Physicists
- Authors
- 박민아
- Issue Date
- Apr-2015
- Publisher
- 한국과학사학회
- Keywords
- American Institute of Physics (AIP); American physics in the 1930s; American Physical Society (APS); physics and the Great Depression; applied physics; applied science vs. pure science
- Citation
- 한국과학사학회지, v.37, no.1, pp.41 - 58
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 한국과학사학회지
- Volume
- 37
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 41
- End Page
- 58
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/143541
- ISSN
- 1229-7895
- Abstract
- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) was founded in 1931 as a loose association of five societies in physics. The original aim of the AIP was to achieve economies of scale in the publication of its journals, but it soon broadened its boundaries and sought to legitimize physics’ contribution to American society during and after the Great Depression.
The promotion of applied physics was one of AIP’s efforts to achieve the social legitimation of physics in the 1930s. It was mainly targeted at industry to make industrial leaders recognize the value of physics in industry and to secure financial support and jobs from industry. AIP organized several conferences, which emphasized practical benefits of physics to industry. At the same time, AIP organized conferences on applied physics, mainly to receive advice from leaders of industrial laboratories on problems of physics education and necessary qualifications for industrial physicists.
In highlighting the benefits of physics to industry and discussing the appropriate qualifications of applied physicists, AIP exposed conflicting ideas among American physicists on the purpose of physics education for college students. It revealed the tension between academic physics professors and industrial physicists, the generation gap between classical and modern physics, and the shifting balance between the needs of society and those of the discipline. The tension, gap, and shifting balance were most clearly and sharply presented in how to teach physics students, what subject to teach, and what moral ethos to be cultivated in college.
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