Maxwell's enduring legacy : a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory / Malcolm Longair, Univ...
Maxwell's enduring legacy : a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory / Malcolm Longair, Univ...
Maxwell's enduring legacy : a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory / Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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G 2017/2846
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English
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xxi, 664 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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unmediated
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volume
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Part I. To 1874. Physics in the nineteenth century -- Mathematics and physics in Cambridge in the nineteenth century -- Part II. 1874 to 1879. The Maxwell era -- Part III. 1879 to 1884. Rayleigh's quinquennium -- Part IV. 1884 to 1919. The challenges facing J.J. Thomson -- The Thomson era, 1884-1900...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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2016.
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"The Cavendish Laboratory is arguably the most famous physics laboratory in the world. Founded in 1874, it rapidly gained a leading international reputation through the researches of the Cavendish professors beginning with Maxwell, Rayleigh, J.J. Thomson, Rutherford and Bragg. Its name will always be associated with the discoveries of the electron,...
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Maxwell's enduring legacy : a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory / Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-639) and indexes.
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G 2017/2846
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9781107083691
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530
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991024104315702626
