The IUPP evaluation: What we were trying to learn and how we were trying to learn it

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-57

  Di Stefano, R ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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EID: 0030543642     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18292     Document Type: Article

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