Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 : laboratories, learning, and college life / edited by Robert Fox, Graeme Gooday.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Robert, 1938-

Gooday, Graeme.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Oxford--History.

University of Oxford.

Physics--Study and teaching (Higher)--England--Oxford--History.

Physics.

Physics--Study and teaching (Graduate)--England--Oxford--History.

Physical Description:

xix, 363 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This book shows that physics in pre-war Oxford has a colourful and dynamic history. Its examination of physics teaching and research in the University's constituent colleges reveals a unique world that helped to make Oxford physics in the twentieth century a force to rival that of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

019152445X

9780191524455

OCLC:

437108542