Re: PER vs EdD (SciEd)

[Dan MacIsaac <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

On Jan 20, 2004, at 4:54 PM, Larry Smith wrote:

> With appropriate exceptions as needed for the wonderful people on this
> list, _being_ a _real_ physicist (as per your definition) does not
Careful here.  There is actually literature and debate on the question
of
who is a "physicist."  There are people (including me) who consider
any degree in physics  -- notably a B.S. or B.Sc.  -- to be a reasonable
-academic- qualification for the title "physicist."  There are other
reasonable qualifications as well.  The label issue is genuine.

Dan M

See: Rigden, J.S. & Stith, J.H. (2003, Nov).  The business of academic
physics.  Physics Today 56(11).
<http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-11/p45.html>
see "a management makeover."

Also for hidden industrial physicists (often re-labelled engineers or
scientists):
<www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-3/iss-3/p52.pdf>

also a google search on "Rigden" and "physicist"

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
222SCIE BSC, 1300 Elmwood Ave , Buffalo NY 14222 USA 716-878-3802
<macisadl@buffalostate.edu>  <http://PhysicsEd.BuffaloState.edu>