Author: University of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
University of Pennsylvania Bulletin
Author: University of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Catalog
Author: Pennsylvania State UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Binary Stars, Neutrinos, and Liquid Crystals:
Author: Paul A. HeineyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669851575
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book traces the parallel paths of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, starting with their genesis in the 18th century, through the rising stature of both departments in the 20th century, and concluding with their unification in 1994. Along the way we meet David Rittenhouse, who observed the transit of Venus in 1769, Charles Doolittle, whose remarkable beard would freeze to his telescope on cold nights, Gaylord Harnwell, who transformed first the physics department and then the entire university, and Raymond Davis, who uncovered a mystery in the middle of the sun. The stories are tragic (Arthur Goodspeed failed to discover X-rays through inattention), horrifying (Dicran Kabakjian poisoned an entire neighborhood), and celebratory (three Penn physicists received the Nobel Prize in the late 20th Century). The reader will gain an appreciation, not just of the history of one institution, but of the ways these two disciplines both intersect and complement each other.
Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
General Catalog Issue
Author: Pennsylvania State CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1912-1916 ... V. IX-XI, Series Four, V. 1-3
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
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