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John Greenberg 《Physics in Perspective (PIP)》2005,7(1):66-106
Nobel laureate William A. Fowler recalls his early education in physics; his part in the history of nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s; parallel efforts elsewhere, particularly at Berkeley and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington,D.C.; his contacts with J. Robert Oppenheimer; and his work with Charles C. Lauritsen and Tommy Lauritsen before and after World War II.John Greenberg received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin and was Caltech research fellow in history from 1980–1984. The Editors were saddened to learn that he died while this interview was in press. Requests for reprints may be directed to Judith R. Goodstein, Institute Archives 015A-74, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; e-mail: jrg@caltech.edu. 相似文献
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Those who have worked in the Royal Institution of Great Britain have, since its foundation in 1799, made significant contributions
to scientific knowledge, to its practical application, and to its communication to a wide variety of audiences. Such work
cannot be carried out in an architectural vacuum, and in this paper we examine how the buildings of the Royal Institution,
20 and 21 Albemarle Street in central London, have shaped the work undertaken within its walls and how, on a number of occasions,
the buildings have been reconfigured to take account of the evolving needs of scientific research and communication.
This paper is based on the Conservation Plan of the Royal Institution that we wrote during 2003. The Conservation Plan did
not examine the land owned by the Royal Institution to the north (i.e., 22 and 23 Albemarle Street; for this area see Richard Garnier, “Grafton Street, Mayfair,” Georgian Group Journal 13 (2003), 210–272), but it did discuss 18 and 19 Albemarle Street. In this paper we concentrate on the core Royal Institution
buildings at 20 and 21 Albemarle Street. Other studies of the relationship of architecture,space, and science include Crosbie
Smith and Jon Agar, ed., Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997); Peter Galison and Emily Thompson, ed., The Architecture of Science (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999); and Sophie Forgan,“The architecture of science and the idea of a university,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 20 (1989), 405–434.
Frank A.J.L. James is Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution; he has written widely on the history of
nineteenth-century science in its social and cultural contexts and is editor of the Correspondence of Michael Faraday. He is President of the British Society for the History of Science. Anthony Peers is an Associate of Rodney Melville and
Partners where he works in the field of building conservation as an architectural historian. He is a Council member of the
Ancient Monument Society. 相似文献
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We analyze the role and influence of a tradition of research linked to the concept of
primary matter
in nineteenth-century studies on the nature of the elements.The suggestion of William Prout
(1785-1850) in 1816 that the atomic weights of pure chemical elements are whole numbers and
multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen, taken as unity, was met with serious confutations,which
in turn prompted several attempts to save Prouts hypothesis.We discuss these attempts in detail
and the objections raised against them, for instance by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907).
We pay particular attention to the use of spectroscopy as a method for proving the existence of
elementary forms of matter inside atoms. Leaders in this field of research were two English scientists,
the astrophysicist Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and the chemist William Crookes (1832-
1919). Both of their approaches involved the idea of primary matter. However, while Crookess
approach proved to be incorrect, Lockyers ideas survived for several years and supported the discovery
of the electron by J.J.Thomson (1856-1940). 相似文献
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Minoru Hirano 《Journal of voice》1988,2(4):291-300
Behavior of the cricothyroid, lateral cricoarytenoid, vocalis, and interarytenoid muscles of William D. Vennard was electromyographically investigated. This article demonstrates electromyographic recordings that have not been published. Data presentation and discussion are focused on vocal registers, some phrases for voice training and warm-up, vowels, phonation modes, fundamental frequency control, the interarytenoid muscle, and some nonsinging behaviors 相似文献
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Yoshihara HK 《Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences》2008,84(7):232-245
This review article deals with a new element 'nipponium' reported by Masataka Ogawa in 1908, and with its scientific and science historical background. Ogawa positioned nipponium between molybdenum and ruthenium in the periodic table. From a modern chemical viewpoint, however, nipponium is ascribable to the element with Z=75, namely rhenium, which was unknown in 1908. The reasons for this corrected assignment of nipponium are (1) its optical spectra, (2) its atomic weight when corrected, (3) its relative abundance in molybdenite, the same being true with rhenium. Recently some important evidence was found among the Ogawa's personal collection preserved by his family. Deciphering the X-ray spectra revealed that the measured spectra of the nipponium sample that Ogawa brought from University College, London clearly showed the presence of the element 75 (rhenium). Thus was resolved the mysterious story of nipponium, which had continued for almost a century. It is concluded that nipponium was identical to rhenium. 相似文献
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Matthew Trainer 《Physics in Perspective (PIP)》2008,10(2):212-223
In 1905 Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) was awarded the second John Fritz Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievements in science
and technology. I sketch Kelvin’s life, education, and work in thermodynamics, electrical technology, and instrumentation,
and his role in the laying of the Atlantic cable. I then turn to Kelvin’s four visits to America, in 1876 on the centenary
of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America; in 1884 when he gave his famous Baltimore Lectures at
The Johns Hopkins University; in 1897 when he visited Niagara Falls for the third time and advised George Westinghouse (1846–1914)
on how to develop its enormous water power for the generation of electricity; and in 1902 when he advised George Eastman (1854–1932)
on the development of the photographic industry.
Written in connection with the Kelvin Centenary Year 2007; see “Celebrating the Life of Lord Kelvin,” University of Glasgow
News Review No. 11 (2007), 4.
Matthew Trainer: Matthew Trainer received his M.Phil. degree in physical sciences at the University of Edinburgh in 1980 and
currently is a laboratory instructor at the University of Glasgow where his research focuses in part on the life and work
of Lord Kelvin. 相似文献