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Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 - Laboratories, Learning and College Life (Hardcover, New)
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Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 - Laboratories, Learning and College Life (Hardcover, New)
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Physics in Oxford 1839-1939 offers a challenging new interpretation
of pre-war physics at the University of Oxford, which was far more
dynamic than most historians and physicists have been prepared to
believe. It explains, on the one hand, how attempts to develop the
University's Clarendon Laboratory by Robert Clifton, Professor of
Experimental Philosophy from 1865 to 1915, were thwarted by
academic politics and funding problems, and latterly by Clifton's
idiosyncratic concern with precision instrumentation. Conversely,
by examining in detail the work of college fellows and their
laboratories, the book reconstructs the decentralized environment
that allowed physics to enter on a period of conspicuous vigor in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially at
the characteristically Oxonian intersections between physics,
physical chemistry, mechanics, and mathematics. Whereas histories
of Cambridge physics have tended to focus on the self-sustaining
culture of the Cavendish Laboratory, it was Oxford's
college-trained physicists who enabled the discipline to flourish
in due course in university as well as college facilities, notably
under the newly appointed professors, J. S. E. Townsend from 1900
and F. A. Lindemann from 1919. This broader perspective allows us
to understand better the vitality with which physicists in Oxford
responded to the demands of wartime research on radar and
techniques relevant to atomic weapons and laid the foundations for
the dramatic post-war expansion in teaching and research that has
endowed Oxford with one of the largest and most dynamic schools of
physics in the world.
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