... Perutz, 1990;Jenkin, 2008Jenkin, , 2012)).Having entered the Cavendish to work under J. J. Thomson, he lost interest in the project he was given and in the summer of 1912 he joined the family for a vacation on the Yorkshire coast.There his father, William Henry Bragg (WHB), then Professor of Physics at Leeds, was pondering on a ...
Tópico(s): Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena
2012 - Wiley | Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
... Peas Produce Lots of Gas. Black's Magic. Cavendish Weighed the Earth but Thought He Had Captured ... You Smell It. Now You Don't. Chem Professor Took First Photograph of the Moon! Chlorine Fairies? ...
Tópico(s): Cancer and biochemical research
2007 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... his passing also threatened the future of the Cavendish Laboratory. According to the regulations of his professorship, the chair was to “terminate with the tenure of office of the Professor first elected, unless the University by Grace of ...
Tópico(s): Medical History and Innovations
2002 - Springer International Publishing | Archimedes
... close colleagues, e.g., to Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Other researchers sent their assistants ... secret on purpose at least until Geiger became professor at the university of Tübingen in October 1929. ...
Tópico(s): Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
2013 - Wiley | Annalen der Physik
... 1985), 129–158. 6Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, Cavendish. The Experimental Life (Bucknell University Press, 1999). 7The ... London, Croom Helm, 1976), p. 177. Jack Morrell, ‘Professors Robison and Playfair and the Theophobia Gallica. Natural ... with France, there was one ultra conservative Edinburgh professor John Robison, who took advantage of the fear ... Society. By ‘the Master’ he meant the Cambridge professors of mathematics. 26‘Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general ... dared ‘to promulgate so bad an opinion of … Professors in Universities’. Letter from Whewell to Forbes, 14 ...
Tópico(s): History and Developments in Astronomy
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Annals of Science
... organized the Archive and the Museum of the Cavendish Laboratory. Cambridge also provided Price with several unexpected ...
Tópico(s): History of Science and Natural History
1984 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Technology and Culture
... chemical experiments. In 1783, two of them, Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) and James Watt (1736–1819), conducted ... man, John Playfair (1748–1819), who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh (Challinor ... after Semper gave his Boston lectures, a French professor of sociology at the Lycée de Dijon, Alfred ... the state in several positions, mainly as a professor and state entomologist, and his writings were a ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2019 - Ecological Society of America | Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
... ISBN 981-238-697-1 Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical ... in Inorganic Compounds: Special Volume 1, Dedicated to Professor Jørgensen. T. Schönherr, ed. Structure and Bonding 106. ...
Tópico(s): Planetary Science and Exploration
2004 - AIP Publishing | Physics Today