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Cambridge Physics in the Thirties
John Hendry (Ed)

Adam Hilger 1984
ISBN None
209 pages. Hard Cover.
12 black/white photos and 22 diagrams embedded in the text.

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My Comments on This Book.

This collection of essays marked the 50th anniversary of the first use of a particle accelerator to split atoms, the discovery of the neutron and the demonstration of the existence of the positron. John Hendry's aim was to collect together reminiscences of the unprecedented sequence of breakthroughs in Rutherford's Cavendish lab in the early half of the 1930s. As Rutherford said of the time, "It never rains but it pours!"

Several essays were from the discoverers themselves. Some essays had been published before but were not well-known or otherwise not readily available.

This is a most valuable compilation.

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Contents

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

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