Joseph John Thomson

Recollections and Reflections

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1936 memoir by J. J. Thomson gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 1876-1936.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781108037921
• ISBN-10: 1108037925
• Artikelnr.: 34447015

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Boyhood and Owens College
2. Undergraduate days: Cambridge then and now
3. Cambridge, 1879-84
4. The Cavendish Laboratory - and Professorship of Experimental Physics
5. Psychical research
6. First and second visits to America, 1869, 1903
7. Visits to Canada and Berlin
8. War work - Cambridge during the war
9. Visit to America in 1923
10. Some Trinity men
11. Discharge of electricity through gases
the discovery of the electron
positive rays
12. Physics in my time
Appendix
Index.