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Preface |
vii
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General Introduction
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1
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Essayist |
Part 1 - Three Famous Experiments of 1932 |
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Introduction |
7
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Norman Feather |
The Experimental Discovery of the Neutron |
31
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James Chadwick |
Some Personal Notes on the Discovery of the Neutron |
42
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Philip Dee
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Some Reminsicences of the Discovery of the Neutron
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46
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Ernest Walton |
Personal Recollections of the Discovery of Fast Particles |
49
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Patrick Blackett
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Cloud Chamber Researches in Nuclear Physics and Cosmic Radiation
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56
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Paul Dirac
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Blackett and the Positron
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61
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Part 2 - Cambridge Physics and the Cavendish |
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Introduction |
65
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John Cockcroft
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Some Recollections of Low Energy Nuclear Physics
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74
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Norman de Bruyne
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A Personal View of the Cavendish 1923-30
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81
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W E Duncanson
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Reminiscences 1930-34
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90
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Harrie Massey
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Research at the Cavendish 1932
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95
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Part 3 - Underlying Themes
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Introduction |
103
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Nevill Mott
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Theory and Experiment at the Cavendish circa 1932 |
125
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W B Lewis |
The Development of Electrical Counting Methods in the Cavendish
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133
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Lord Bowden |
The Basic Improbability of Nuclear Physics
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137
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C E Wynn-Williams |
The Scale-of-two Counter
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141
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T E Allibone |
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and the Cavendish |
150
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Alan Wilson |
Theoretical Physics in Cambridge in the Late 1920s and Early 1930s |
174
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Part 4 - Change and Continuity
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Introduction |
179
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Mark Oliphant |
Working with Rutherford |
184
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Maurice Goldhaber |
Working with Chadwick |
189
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Rudolf Peierls |
Reminiscences of Cambridge in the Thirties |
195 |
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Select Bibliography
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201
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Name Index |
206
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