History of Physics

Presentations

• David Dennison, the specific heat of hydrogen, and the discovery of nuclear spin

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 2:30 PM – April 14, 2008, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Clayton A. Gearhart

    • St. John's University (Minnesota)
    • St. John's University

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• Grete Hermann: Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 2:42 PM – April 14, 2008, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Caroline Herzenberg

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• Hermann Weyl: Between Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 2:54 PM – April 14, 2008, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Peter Pesic

    • St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM

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• Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun - the two great German-American physicists seen in a historical perspective.

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 3:06 PM – April 14, 2008, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Friedwardt Winterberg

    • Univ of Nevada Reno
    • University of Nevada Reno

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• William Band at Yenching University

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 3:18 PM – April 14, 2008, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Danian Hu

    • The City College of New York

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• In Franklin's Path: Establishing Physics at the University of Pennsylvania

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 3:30 PM – April 14, 2008, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Halpern

    • University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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• Scientific Revolutions to the nth power: n = 0, 1, 2, 3.

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 3:42 PM – April 14, 2008, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • James Beichler

    • West Virginia Univ. at Parkersburg
    • West Virginia Univ at Parkersburg

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• The Genesis of SESAPS

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 3:54 PM – April 14, 2008, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ronald Mickens

    • Clark Atlanta University

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• Well, It Was Big When We Built It!

  ORAL

  April 14, 2008, 4:06 PM – April 14, 2008, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Virginia Trimble

    • University of California Irvine \& Las Cumbres Observatory

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