Selected papers of great American physicists : the bicentennial commemorative volume of The American Physical Society 1976

by Spencer R. Weart

American physics is second to none in the world. It was not always so. This volume, issued by The American Physical Society to celebrate the American Bicentennial, contains representative and readable selections of the papers of great American physicists which illustrate the rise of American physics from colonial days through the early years of the twentieth century. In these reproduction of original papers we are brought closer to the past of our profession and our country. The roll call is impressive, Franklin, Henry, Gibbs, Rowland, Michelson, Millikan, Compton; a signer of the Declaration of Independence and first Great American physicist, a founder and second president of the National Academy of Science, the first great American theoretical physicist, the first President of the The American Physical Society and the first three American Nobel Prize Winners in Physics.

176 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1976