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The number of such meetings increased rapidly as physicists from the Manhattan Project, the Radiation Laboratory and other major wartime facilities, who had dispersed to the universities and to a few industrial organizations, came together to try to obtain an overview that would permit them to select a particular area of research that they felt was most promising and best suited to their talents and equipment.
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Bromley, D.A. (2002). The Explosive Growth of Postwar Physics, 1950–1999. In: A Century of Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3689-2_2
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