Industrial Employers of Ph.D. 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
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
Thermo Scientific Corporation
Areté Associates
Texas Instruments
NEC Research Institute
Eaton Corporation
Beckman Instruments
Phillips 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
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).