Legends in their own time : a century of American physical scientists

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Astronomy and the Harvard Observatory
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   Chapter 2 Henry Rowland and Electricity
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   Chapter 3 J. Willard Gibbs and the Origins of Physical Chemistry
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   Chapter 4 A. A. Michelson and the Ether
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   Chapter 5 R. A. Millikan and the Maturity of American Science
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   Chapter 6 The Growth of American Astronomy
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   Chapter 7 Irving Langmuir and the General Electric Laboratories
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   Chapter 8 Linus Pauling and American Quantum Chemistry
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    Chapter 9 Arthur Compton and “Compton Scattering”
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    Chapter 10 Davisson and Germer and Quantum Physics
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    Chapter 11 E. O. Lawrence and Nuclear Research
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    Chapter 12 Carl Anderson and Antimatter
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    Chapter 13 Hans Bethe and Energy in the Sun
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    Chapter 14 The Manhattan Project: Witness to the Atomic Age
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    Chapter 15 The Myth of Symmetry: Yang and Lee
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    Chapter 16 The Emergence of Solid-State Physics
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    Chapter 17 Murray Gell-Mann and More Particles: Forces within the Nucleus
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    Chapter 18 Richard Feynman and Quantum Electrodynamics
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    Chapter 19 Glashow, Weinberg, and the Search for a Unified Field Theory
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    Chapter 20 Beyond the GUT