Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 laboratories, learning, and college life /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fox, Robert, 1938-, Gooday, Graeme.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Physics in Oxford: problems and perspectives /
  • Robert Fox ... [et al.]
  • Context and practices of Oxford Physics, 1839-77 /
  • Robert Fox
  • Robert Bellamy Clifton and the 'depressing inheritance' of the Clarendon Laboratory, 1877-1919 /
  • Graeme Gooday
  • Laboratories and physics in Oxford Colleges, 1848-1947 /
  • Tony Simcock
  • Mechanical physicists, the Millard Laboratory, and the transition from physics to engineering /
  • Tony Simcock
  • Translating ion physics from Cambridge to Oxford: John Townsend and the Electrical Laboratory, 1900-24 /
  • Benoit Lelong
  • Lindemann Era /
  • Jack Morrell
  • Redfining the context: Oxford and the wider world of British physics, 1900-1940 /
  • Jeff Hughes
  • Epilogue /
  • Robert Fox, Graeme Gooday
  • Appendix I.
  • The classification of the Oxford B.A.
  • Appendix II.
  • The syllabus for the Oxford B.A., 1831-1872
  • Appendix III.
  • Letter from Robert Clifton to Sir William Thomson.