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The Cavendish Laboratory 1874–1974 by J. G. Crowther (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-22 Founding the Professorship and Laboratory....Pages 23-34 Creating the Cavendish Tradition....Pages 35-46 Building the Laboratory....Pages 47-60 The Early Atmosphere....Pages 61-79 Rayleigh....Pages 80-87 Systematising Teaching and Research....Pages 88-102 J. J. Thomson: Early Days....Pages 103-108 Building on the Foundations....Pages 109-125 Fruition....Pages 126-140 From Outside to Inside the Atom....Pages 141-151 Accommodation and Teaching....Pages 152-159 New Physics, and a New Professor....Pages 160-175 Rutherford’s Background....Pages 176-182 The Apotheosis of the Cavendish Laboratory....Pages 183-202 The Rutherford Era....Pages 203-212 Cloud Chambers....Pages 213-224 Engineers and Electricians....Pages 225-235 Russian and Australian Views....Pages 236-248 Individual Genius also Flourished....Pages 249-257 The Cavendish in Transition....Pages 258-268 Bragg....Pages 269-290 The Technicians’ Contribution....Pages 291-300 Physicists and Molecular Biology....Pages 301-319 Final Report....Pages 320-328 The Mond....Pages 329-338 ‘One Good Laboratory Among Many’....Pages 339-357 Current Researches....Pages 358-367 New Instruments

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
J. G. Crowther (auth.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
1974
Language
EN
ISBN
9781349016723
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Physics, Stem

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