Industrial Employers of PhD Physics Recipients
Largest 19 Employers*
*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
- Philips Medical Systems
- Symyx Technologies Incorporated
- General Electric Company
- Teledyne
- Sverdrup Corporation
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Phillip Morris, Incorporated
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Silicon Valley Group
- 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).
