American Physical Society. Annual meeting (2014: Savannah, Ga.)
Gaining Inspiration fro Galileo, Einstein and Oppenheimer [sound recording], 2014 April 6.
Audio recording of session K17 of the April 2014 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Savannah, Georgia in April 2014. This session was chaired by Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Galileo as an intellectual heretic and why that matters" (Paolo Palmieri); "Walkin in the Footsteps of Einstein: Why History of Physics Aids Physics Education" (Gerd Kortemeyer); "Using the History of Physics to Enrich Your Teaching" (Cameron Reed). Topics discussed include Galileo, Albert Einstein, teaching physics, relativity.
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.
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Physics -- Study and teaching
Relativity (Physics)
Kortemeyer, Gerd
Palmieri, Paolo
Reed, Cameron
Westfall, Catherine
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA