Book ID: CBB000028703

Millikan's school: A history of the California Institute of Technology (1991)

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Goodstein, Judith R. (Author)


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Publication Date: 1991
Physical Details: 317 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Home, R.W. (1993) Review of "Millikan's school: A history of the California Institute of Technology". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 155-57). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kargon, Robert Hugh
Russo, A.
Kevles, Daniel J.
Kargon, Robert H.
Goodstein, Judith R.
Franklin, Allan D.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Scientific American
Physics Today
Physics Teacher
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Publishers
Princeton University Press
IEEE
Cornell University Press
Harvard University
Concepts
Physics
Electron physics; ionization
Gender
Coeducation
Photons
Electrons
People
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Compton, Arthur Holly
Pauling, Linus Carl
Wood, Robert Williams
Schön, Jan Hendrick
Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
England
United States
Italy
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Georgia Institute of Technology
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