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Jesse, William Polk, 1891-1974
William P. Jesse scientific autobiography, 1968.
The document chronicles Jesse's early childhood influences and education; his studies at the University of Missouri in engineering; his brief period of employment at Westinghouse Machine Company in East Pittsburgh after obtaining his graduate degree in engineering; his return to graduate school at the University of Missouri in physics under Harvey C. Rentschler; his World War I Army service; dissertation work begun at the University of Chicago under Robert Millikan and Albert A. Michelson and finished at Yale University; teaching at Lehigh University; two years working with William Bragg at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory and the Royal Institution in London; a review of his research papers, including his work with Arthur H. Compton's group at the University of Chicago, which included Bruno Rossi, Marcel Schein, Ernest O. Wollan, and Donald Hughes; and a brief discussion, entitled: How One Gets Ideas in Research.
Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Jesse, William Polk, 1891-1974
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
Rossi, Bruno Benedetto, 1905-
Schein, Marcel, 1902-1960.
Lehigh University -- Faculty.
Royal Institution of Great Britain.
University of Chicago -- Research.
University of Missouri-Columbia -- Students.
Yale University
Engineering -- Study and teaching.
Physicists -- Biography.
Physics -- Research.
Physics -- Study and teaching
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives.
Hughes, Donald J.
Jesse, William Polk, 1891-1974 -- Childhood and youth.
Rentschler, Harvey C.
Davy-Faraday Laboratory.
Westinghouse Machine Company.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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