Article ID: CBB000850204

Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier's Bones to Higgs's Boson (2007)

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Henry, John (Author)


Physics in Perspective
Volume: 9
Pages: 468--501


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Under the heading “The Physical Tourist”
Language: English

I provide a tour of Edinburgh focusing on famous contributors to the history of physics and related sciences, using them as a way to write about particular parts of Edinburgh. I proceed chronologically, from the seventeenth century to the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century and on to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the notable individuals I discuss are John Napier (1550--1617), James Gregory (1638--1675), George Sinclair (ca. 1625--1696), Colin Maclaurin (1698--1746), Joseph Black (1728--1799), James Hutton (1726--1797), John James Waterston (1811--1883), William J. Macquorn Rankine (1820--1872), David Brewster (1781--1868), Peter Guthrie Tait (1831--1901), James Clerk Maxwell (1831--1879), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819--1900), Charles Glover Barkla (1877--1944), Max Born (1882--1970), Edward Victor Appleton (1892--1965), Charles T.R. Wilson (1869--1959), and Peter Higgs (b. 1929).

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Authors & Contributors
Jenkins, Bill
Anderson, Robert Geoffrey William
Wendy McGlashan
Rayner-Canham, Geoff
Rayner-Canham, Marelene
Button, Clare
Concepts
Chemistry
Science education and teaching
Particles (nuclear physics)
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Natural history
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Edinburgh
Scotland
British Isles
Glasgow (Scotland)
Leipzig (Germany)
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Animal Breeding Research Department (University of Edinburgh)
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Physiological Society
University of St. Andrews
University of Glasgow
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