Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939
Subtitle: Laboratories, Learning, and College Life
Contributors: Robert Fox (Editor); Graeme Gooday (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 23, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780198567929
Subjects: Higher & further education; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Science; Science/Mathematics; Oxfordshire; PHYSICS; Science / Physics; England; History; Oxford; Study and teaching (Graduate); Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: This book shows that physics in pre-war Oxford has a colourful and dynamic history. Its examination of physics teaching and research in the university's constituent colleges reveals a unique world that helped to make Oxford physics in the 20th century, a force to rival that of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge.