Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology - Softcover

Goodstein, Judith R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393329984 ISBN 13: 9780393329988

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

“Millikan’s School presents an interesting and thoroughly reliable account of the astonishing change over a period of a few years of a small technical school in Pasadena, California, into one of the world’s leading scientific institutions.” ―Linus Pauling

Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famous scientists, such as von Karman in aeronautics, Morgan in biology, Gutenberg in seismology, Noyes in physical chemistry and Epstein in physics.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'Millikan's School' presents an interesting and thoroughly reliable account of the astonishing change over a period of a few years of a small technical school in Pasadena, California, into one of the world's leading scientific institutions.' --Linus Pauling

About the Author:

Judith R. Goodstein, PhD, is University Archivist and faculty associate at Caltech. She has taught history at Cal State Dominguez Hills and UCLA, while building from scratch an archive and rare book collection about the history of science. She is married to Professor David Goodstein.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393329984
• ISBN 13: 9780393329988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352