American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2010: Washington, D.C)
History of physics contributed papers [sound recording], 2010 February 14.
Audio recording of session H10 of the April 2010 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Washington, DC in February 2010. This session was sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) and chaired by David Cassidy of Hofstra University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Did Minkowski Change his Mind about Noneuclidean Symmetry in Special Relativity?" (Felix T. Smith); "Ettore Majorana and the birth of autoionization" (Ennio Arimondo, Charles W. Clark , William C. Martin); "Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas: An appraisal of an under-appreciated polymath" (John David Jackson); "The Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics: Bringing the Spirit of Copenhagen to Foggy Bottom" (Paul Halpern); "Bullion to B-fields: The Silver Program of the Manhattan Project" (Cameron Reed); "What I have learned in reading and writing history of physics" (Harry Lustig); "Twist 'til we tear the house down: How Clifford solved the universe in 1870" (James Beichler); "A Historical View of Kirchhoff's Black Body Universal Distribution Function K (lambda)" (Clarence A. Gall); and "History of the 3 Theories of Light" (Jeffrey Boyd). Topics discussed include symmetry, Ettore Majorana, ionization, Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas, theoretical physics, Mahattan Project use of silver, William K. Clifford, Gustav Kirchhoff, distribution, and theories of light.
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Clifford, William Kingdon, 1845-1879
Kirchhoff, G. (Gustav), 1824-1887.
Majorana, Ettore.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Theoretical physics
Distribution (probablilty theory).
Ionization.
Wave theory of light.
Silver (Chemical technology) -- Industrial applications.
Symmetry (Physics)
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Arimondo, E.
Beichler, James
Clark, C. W. (Charles W.), 1952-
Gall, Clarence A.
Halpern, Paul, 1961-
Jackson, John David, 1925-2016-
Lustig, Harry.
Martin, W. C. (William Clyde), 1929-
Reed, B. Cameron
Smith, Felix T.
Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992.
AIP-ICOS
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