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
• Philips Medical Systems
• Symyx Technologies Incorporated
• General Electric Company
• Teledyne
• Sverdrup Corporation
• Phillip Morris, Incorporated
  
• 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).