Malcolm Longair

Maxwell's Enduring Legacy (eBook, PDF)

A Scientific History of the Cavendish Laboratory

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cavendish Laboratory is arguably the most famous physics laboratory in the world. Founded in 1874, it rapidly gained a leading international reputation through the researches of the Cavendish professors beginning with Maxwell, Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, Rutherford and Bragg. Its name will always be associated with the discoveries of the electron, the neutron, the structure of the DNA molecule and pulsars, but these are simply the tip of the iceberg of outstanding science. The physics carried out in the laboratory is the central theme of the book and this is explained in reasonably non-technical terms. The research activities are set in their international context. Generously illustrated, with many pictures of the apparatus used and diagrams from the original papers, the story is brought right up to date with descriptions of the science carried out under the leadership of the very different personalities of Mott, Pippard and Edwards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316028605
• Artikelnr.: 45475330

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Longair is Emeritus Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy and Director of Development at the Cavendish Laboratory. He was appointed the ninth Astronomer Royal of Scotland in 1980, as well as the Regius Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, and the director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. He was head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005 and he has served on and chaired many international committees, boards and panels, working with both NASA and the European Space Agency. He has received much recognition for his work over the years, including a CBE in the millennium honours list for his services to astronomy and cosmology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Figure credits
Part I. To 1874: 1. Physics in the nineteenth century
2. Mathematics and physics in Cambridge in the nineteenth century
Part II. 1874 to 1879: 3. The Maxwell era
Part III. 1879 to 1884: 4. Rayleigh's Quinquennium
Part IV. 1884 to 1919: 5. The challenges facing J. J. Thomson
6. The J. J. Thomson era, 1884-1900 - the electron
7. The Thomson era, 1900-19 - atomic structure
Part V. 1919 to 1937: 8. Rutherford at McGill and Manchester Universities - new challenges in Cambridge
9. The Rutherford era - the radioactivists
10. Rutherford era - the seeds of the new physics
Part VI. 1938 to 1953: 11. Bragg and the war years
12. Bragg and the post-war years
Part VII. 1953 to 1971: 13. The Mott era - an epoch of expansion
14. The Mott era - radio astronomy and high energy physics
15. The Mott era - the growth of condensed matter physics
Part VIII. 1971 to 1982: 16. The Pippard era - a new laboratory and a new vision
17. The Pippard era - radio astronomy, high energy physics and laboratory astrophysics
18. The Pippard era - condensed matter physics
Part IX. 1984 to 1995: 19. The Edwards era - a new epoch of expansion
20. The Edwards era - new directions in condensed matter physics
21. The Edwards era - high energy physics and radio astronomy
Part X. 1995 to present: 22. Towards the new millennium and beyond
23. The evolution of the New Museums site
Notes
Bibliography
Author index
Index.