Industrial Employers of PhD Physics Recipients

Largest 19 Employers* Raytheon Corporation IBM Lockheed Martin Corporation Lucent Technologies Boeing Company Eastman Kodak Company Science Applications International Corporation General Atomics Hewlett-Packard Company

Northrop Grumman Corporation AT&T Schlumberger Limited Motorola Incorporated Rockwell International Corporation Seagate Technologies Osram Sylvania Maxwell Optical Industries Varian Associates 3M Company

*The above companies employ 30% of industrially employed Ph.D. physicist members.

Next Group of Large Employers Bechtel Intel Corporation Honeywell Incorporated Exxon Corporation ThermoTrex Corporation Areté Associates Texas Instruments NEC Research Institute Eaton Corporation Beckman Instruments Picker International (now Marconi Medical Systems) Symyx Technologies Incorporated General Electric Company Teledyne Sverdrup Corporation Phillip Morris, Incorporated Silicon Valley Group

Allied Signal Incorporated (now merged with Honeywell) Siemens Medical Systems Incorporated KLA-Tencor Corporation ITT Westinghouse Electric Fonar Corporation General Motors Corporation Xerox Corporation TRW Incorporated Analogic Corporation Fluor Daniel, Incorporated Ford Motor Company SDL International Sarnoff Corporation Corning Glass Works WebTV Networks Incorporated Veeco Instruments Corporation

The total group of industrial employers above account for 45% of Ph.D. physics members who are employed in the private sector; reside in the United States, and are a member of at least one of the 10 Member Societies of the American Institute of Physics.

SOURCE: AIP Membership Sample Survey, 1998 (as reported in APS NEWS, November, 1999).

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