American Physical Society. Annual meeting (2014: Savannah, Ga.)
Journeys in the History of Physics: Pais Prize Session in Honor of David Cassidy [sound recording], 2014 April 5.
Audio recording of session C17 of the April 2014 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Savannah, Georgia in April 2014. This session was chaired by David Cassidy, Hofstra University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Abraham Pais Prize: Physics, History, and Biography" (David C. Cassidy); "Toward a Rethinking of the Relativity Revolution" (Daniel Siegel; was not recorded due to technical issues); "An Insider's History of Some of the Significant Changes in the APS from the 1960s to Today" (Brian Schwartz). Topics discussed include the history of physics, relativity, Einstein, and the history of the American Physical Society (APS).
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.
Cassidy, David C., 1945-
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
American Physical Society
Physics -- History.
Relativity (Physics)
Cassidy, David C., 1945-
Schwartz, Brian B., 1938-
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA