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Largest Industrial Employers of PhD Physicists
The industrial employers in both columns account for 45% of PhD physicist members who are employed in the private sector, reside in the US and are a member of at least one of AIP's Member Societies.
Every two years, the AIP Education and Employment Statistics Division surveys a group of members belonging to at least one of the 10 AIP Member Societies and residing in the US. In 1998, 30% of the PhD physicist respondents who work in the private sector came from just nineteen companies.
The next largest group of companies each have nearly the same number of respondents. Almost half of the companies in this second group moved into this list since 1996 and are indicated in italics.
Raytheon, since their acquisition of Hughes and Texas Instruments divisions, employs the most PhD physicists that belong to an AIP member society. Since the time these data were collected, several of these corporations (such as Westinghouse) have undergone major restructuring, including mergers and divestitures.
For questions or comments, please contact Raymond Y. Chu or Amanda Benedict at (301) 209-3070 or stats@aip.org. Visit the AIP Stats website at www.aip.org/statistics.
SOURCE: AIP Membership Sample Survey, 1998
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 PhD physicist members. Next Group of Large Employers | |
| Bechtel Intel Corporation Honeywell Incorporated Exxon Corporation ThermoTrex Corporation Arete Associates Texas Instruments NEC Research Institute Eaton Corporation Beckman Instruments Picker International Symyx Technologies Incorporated General Electric Company Teledyne Sverdrup Corporation Phillip Morris, Incorporated Silicon Valley Group | Allied Signal Incorporated 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 |
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