Book ID: CBB000053257

The making of physicists (1988)

unapi

Williamson, Rajkumari (Editor)


Hilger


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: viii + 200 pp.; illus.; index

Description Contents: Ditchburn, R.W.: Reminiscences. Allibone, T.E.: Reminiscences of Sheffield and Cambridge. Jeffreys, B. Swirles: A Cambridge research student in the 1920s. Walton, E.T.S.: Recollections of physics at Trinity College, University of Dublin, in the 1920s. McCrea, William: Cambridge 1923-6: Undergraduate mathematics. McVittie, G.C.: An Anglo-Scottish university education. Brück, H.A.: Recollections of student years in Germany. Mott, Nevill: Learning and teaching quantum mechanics, 1926-33: Cambridge, Copenhagen and Manchester. Ward, F.A.B.: Physics in Cambridge in the late 1920s. Kurti, N.: Undergraduate in Paris 1926-8: Graduate student and DPhil in Berlin, 1928-31. Fröhlich, H.: The education of physicists between the wars. Lipson, H.: Physics in a minor department, 1927-36. Schoenberg, D.: Teaching and research in the Cavendish, 1929-35. Jones, R.V.: Oxford physics in transition, 1929-39. Wilson, J.G.: Student days and apprenticeship with CTR. Curran, Samuel: The Scottish scence in the inter-war years. Lovell, Bernard: Bristol and Manchester--The years 1931-9. Burcham, W.E.: Some thoughts on physics courses in Cambridge, 1931-7.


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Review Hentschel, K. (1991) Review of "The making of physicists". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 129-30). unapi

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