American Physical Society. (2011: Anaheim, Calif.)
History of physics I [sound recording], 2011 May 1.
Audio recording of session H13 of the April 2011 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Anaheim, CA in April 2011. This session was sponsored by the Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) and chaired by David Cassidy of Hofstra University. Talks (and speakers) include: "The Discovery of Cosmic Rays" (Per Carlson and Alessandro De Angelis); "Up the Decade! 50 Years of Astronomical Prioritizations and Predictions" (Virginia Trimble); "Jocular Physics: A Tribute to Bohr in Humor" (Paul Halpern); "Correcting a Persistent Manhattan Project Statistical Error" (Cameron Reed) . Topics discussed include the discovery of cosmic rays by Victor Hess; Dominico Pacini; Carl Anderson and the discovery of the positron; American astronomical community's decadal surveys; Journal of Jocular Physics; Niels Bohr, Leon Rosenfeld, and Victor Weisskopf; Major-General Kenneth Nichols, the Manhattan Project's District Engineer; Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991-
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Hess, Victor Francis, 1883-1964.
Nichols, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1907-
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Astronomy -- 20th century.
Astronomy -- United States.
Cosmic rays
Positrons.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.)
Sound recordings lcgft
Carlson, Per
Cassidy, David C., 1945-
De Angelis, Alessandro
Halpern, Paul, 1961-
Reed, Cameron
Trimble, Virginia
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA