| Description |
209 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
| Contents |
(cont.) The scale-of-two counter / C.E. Wynn-Williams -- Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and the Cavendish Laboratory / T.E. Allibone -- Theoretical physics in Cambridge in the late 1920s and early 1930s / Alan Wilson -- Change and continuity. Working with Rutherford / Mark Oliphant -- Working with Chadwick / M. Goldhaber -- Reminiscences of Cambridge in the thirties / R. Peierls |
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Three famous experiments of 1932. The experimental discovery of the neutron / Norman Feather -- Some personal notes on the discovery of the neutron / James Chadwick -- Some reminiscences of the discovery of the neutron / Philip Dee -- Personal recollections of the discovery of fast particles / Ernest T.S. Walton -- Cloud chamber researches in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation / Patrick Blackett -- Blackett and the positron / Paul Dirac -- Cambridge physics and the Cavendish. Some recollections of low energy nuclear physics / John Cockcroft -- A personal view of the Cavendish 1923-30 / Norman de Bruyne -- Reminiscences 1930-4 / W.E. Duncanson -- Research at the Cavendish 1932 / Harrie Massey -- Underlying themes. Theory and experiment at the Cavendish circa 1932 / Nevill Mott -- The development of electrical counting methods in the Cavendish / W.B. Lewis -- The basic improbability of nuclear physics / Lord Bowden |
| Analysis |
Cambridgeshire Cambridge Nuclear physics Research, 1930-1935 |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 201-205 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 201-205. - Includes index |
| Subject |
Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England)
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Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England) -- History.
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Cavendish Laboratory -- History
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Nuclear physics -- Research -- England -- Cambridge -- History.
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Physicists -- England -- Cambridge.
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Physics -- England -- History.
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| Author |
Hendry, John, 1952-
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| LC no. |
83216483 |
| ISBN |
0852747616 |
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