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Maxwell´s Enduring Legacy: A Scientific History of the Cavendish Laboratory
Malcolm Longair
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Description for Maxwell´s Enduring Legacy: A Scientific History of the Cavendish Laboratory
hardcover. An authoritative scientific history of a world-leading physics laboratory from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 650 pages, 93 b/w illus. 140 colour illus. 35 tables. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
650
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107083691
SKU
V9781107083691
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About Malcolm Longair
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Maxwell´s Enduring Legacy: A Scientific History of the Cavendish Laboratory
'In what is patently a labour of love, the astronomer Malcolm Longair now gives us a comprehensive scientific history of the Cavendish in Maxwell's Enduring Legacy. Longair, who was the lab's head from 1997 to 2005, describes its inception well ... Longair's history is in the form of a well-organized modern physics book, most of its twenty-two sections replete with ... Read more