Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Daubeny Laboratory Register: 1904-1915
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Daubeny Laboratory Register 1904-1915 Register, 1904-1915
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bibliotheca Osleriana
Author: Sir William OslerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773590501
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalogue, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, was compiled - a labour of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalogue and wrote many of the annotations.
Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939
Author: Robert FoxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198567928
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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 idiosyncraticconcern 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 vigour in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially atthe 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 broaderperspective 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 thelargest and most dynamic schools of physics in the world.
The Daubeny Laboratory Register
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Bodleian Quarterly Record
Author: The Daubeny Laboratory Register 1849-1923
Author: R. T. Gunther, M. A. Hon. Ll.D.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Universities and British Industry
Author: Michael SandersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429836384
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Originally published in 1972, The University and British Industry examines the lively and controversial relationship between British industry and the university. The book looks at the impact of industry on the development of British universities from the 1850s to the 1970s, and with contribution from the universities to industry through scientific research and the supply of graduate skills. The book argues that the close involvement of the universities and industry has been one of the chief beneficial forces shaping the British universities movement in the last hundred years. It gives an account of the changes which took place within the universities to make them more suitable for industries purposes, describing for example the early rise of the English civic universities, strongly financed by, and closely supporting industry. The book also considers how, during the two world wars, industry became highly reliant on the universities for the war technology, and how, despite the depression between the wars, university research and graduate employment embraced the widening opportunities of the new industries. The book also discusses the expansion of the university in the sixties and points out that industrial motives have merged with those of social justice, posing dilemmas for present and future relations between universities and industry.
The Bodleian Quarterly Record
Author: Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description