SELECTED PAPERS OF GREAT AMERICAN PHYSICISTS

The Bicentennial Commemorative Volume of The American Physical Society 1976

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Contents

Preface by William A Fowler

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Letter IV: Farther Experiments and Observations in Electricitry
Letter XI

JOSEPH HENRY
On the Production of Currents and Sparks of Electricity from Magnetism
On Electro-Dynamic Induction (extract)

ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON
On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether (with Edward W. Morley)

HENRY AUGUSTUS ROWLAND
Screw
The Highest Aim of the Physicist

JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS
Preface to Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics

ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN
On the Elementary Electrical Charge and the Avogadro Constant (extract)

ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON
A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements

Afterword: The Last Fifty Years

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