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THE main difference between Dr. Wood and ourselves seems to lie in our interpretation of the functions associated with a physicist. We believe that a physicist should be concerned with splitting a problem into its essentials and dealing with them separately, whereas the engineer should deal with immediate problems in their entirety. One is familiar with the accusation that physicists are too far removed from reality to be of practical use ; one does not expect this accusation to be repeated by another physicist such as Dr. Wood.
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LIPSON, H., STOKES, A. Strength of Metals. Nature 164, 628 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164628b0
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