The Making of Physicists

Williamson, R.

ISBN 10: 0852745249 / ISBN 13: 9780852745243

Published by Adam Hilger, UK, 1987

About this Item

200 pages. This collection of narratives by eighteen senior physicists of their student days in the 1920s and 1930s paints a vivid picture of a life of study at a variety of institutions. The authors give students' -eye views of some of the legendary figures of physics and describe with wit and humour their styles, abilities and idiosyncrasies as teachers. Their discussions of lectures, syllabuses, practical classes, examinations, supervision, fellow students and financial support illuminate the educational milieu of a period when physics was undergoing dramatic changes; they were made aware of living in an inspired age of discovery. Many became the mentors of the succeeding generation of physicists and comment on the changing patterns of teaching and research over the last fifty years. An introduction by the editor relates the developments in the physics of the period and sketches the evolution of the place of physics in the educational environment. Appendices give information about the authors and their universities. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of Physicists
• Publisher: Adam Hilger, UK
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852745249
• ISBN 13: 9780852745243
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Photographs
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Personal accounts by 18 senior physicists of their undergraduate and postgraduate days in the inter-war period (1918-1939). The narratives illuminate the teaching and research pursuits of physicists in a period when physics was undergoing some remarkable changes and the revolutionary ideas of the first two decades of this century were finding their way into the teaching syllabus. Of great interest to physicists, educationalists, historians of science and the general science readers.