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American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2016: Salt Lake City, Utah)
Pais Prize Session - Some History You Won't Find in Physics Textbooks [sound recording], 2016 April 18.
Audio recording of session U6 of the April 2016 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Salt Lake City, Utah in April 2016. This session was chaired by William Evenson, Brigham Young University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics: Physics Textbooks Don't Always Tell the Truth" (Allan Franklin); "Newton's Principia: Myth and Reality" (George Smith); "Historical Examples of Misrepresentation, Innovation, and Morality in Physical Science and Technology" (Jed Buchwald). Topics discussed include teaching physics history; Robert Millikan; photoelectric effect; Ellis-Wooster experiment; Isaac Newton; gravity; Johannes Kepler; Heinrich Hertz's discovery of electric waves; electromagnetic radiation; Guglielmo Marconi and John Ambrose Fleming; Hermann von Helmholtz; Friedrich Zollner.
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.
Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir, 1849-1945.
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894
Hertz, Heinrich, 1857-1894
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
ZlĖ˛lner, Friedrich
Electric waves.
Gravity.
Physics -- History.
Physics -- Study and teaching
Photoelectric effect.
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Evenson, William E., 1941-
Franklin, Allan, 1938-
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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