Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 laboratories, learning, and college life / [electronic resource] : edited by Robert Fox, Graeme Gooday. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xix, 363 p. : ill.

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

Physics in Oxford: problems and perspectives / Context and practices of Oxford Physics, 1839-77 / Robert Bellamy Clifton and the 'depressing inheritance' of the Clarendon Laboratory, 1877-1919 / Laboratories and physics in Oxford Colleges, 1848-1947 / Mechanical physicists, the Millard Laboratory, and the transition from physics to engineering / Translating ion physics from Cambridge to Oxford: John Townsend and the Electrical Laboratory, 1900-24 / Lindemann Era / Redfining the context: Oxford and the wider world of British physics, 1900-1940 / The classification of the Oxford B.A. -- The syllabus for the Oxford B.A., 1831-1872 -- Letter from Robert Clifton to Sir William Thomson. Robert Fox ... [et al.] -- Robert Fox -- Graeme Gooday -- Tony Simcock -- Tony Simcock -- Benoit Lelong -- Jack Morrell -- Jeff Hughes -- Robert Fox, Graeme Gooday -- Epilogue / Appendix I. Appendix II. Appendix III.


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