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Rezerford (Rutherford: A Learned Teacher)
Peter Kapitsa (Ed)
 Science (Moscow) 1973
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211 pages. Hard Cover.
15 black/white photos embedded in the text.
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My Comments on This Book
This book in Russian covers the 1971 Moscow celebrations of the
centennial of the birth of Ernest Rutherford. The
celebrations were organised by Peter Kapitsa.
Foreword (Translated into English by Basil
Kerdemelidis)
30 August 1971 was the centenary
of Ernest Rutherford's birthday. To mark this occasion
in our country, a special colloquium was held in conjunction with the
XIII International Congress on 'History of Science', in Moscow.
Rutherford's ex-students and
colleagues came from England, USA and Canada to
participate in the proceedings.
This colloquium evinced wide
interest and findings and, judging by the many comments,
was successful. In fact, Rutherford is such an imposing figure in
science and indeed was such a fascinating man, that his memory will long
remain among scientists; he will serve as an example not only of an
outstanding scientist but also of a leader. In him one
found severity and kindness, fairness, a great source of ideas, and
deep understanding of methods of the development of science. To his
students he was a paragon of a leader from whom one
could learn much.
For these reasons, it was
decided to publish, in a separate volume, the contents
of the meeting. Because the participants of the colloquium concentrated
only on the Cambridge period of Rutherford's scientific
activity, this book includes also memories by N Bohr and
B Kaye, Rutherford's collaborators of the Manchester period.
In addition to the above the
collection of articles, a short note by N A Shilov, a
well-known Russian physical chemist who worked with Rutherford during
1914, is included.
We also thought that it would be
of interest to add to the voices of Rutherford's friends
and students the voice of the scientist himself; and the collection
starts with Rutherford's last published presentation in 1936, dedicated
to radioactivity and structure of the atom. That year a
number of eminent scientists presented papers on the 40
year period of scientific development from 1896 to 1936.
Candidate of Mathematical
Physics Yu. M Tsipenyukom, secretary of the colloquium,
has compiled and edited the compendium. He also translated the
presentations of foreign contributors. William Kaye's paper was
translated by N G Elkonina. Most of the photographs were produced by Yu
G Zlechnik.
We hope that this collection
will evoke interest in wider circles of our society so
that men like Rutherford are not only the pride of parochial interests
such as places of birth or work but become the pride of
all mankind.
Moscow, Dec 1971
P L Kapitsa
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Contents (Translated into English)
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3
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E
Rutherford |
40 Years
of Physics Progress
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18
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P Kapitsa |
The Role
of Outstanding Teacher in the Development of Physics
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27
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P Kapitsa |
My
Memories of Rutherford
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43
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P
Blackett |
Rutherford's
Achievments
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50
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N Feather |
The
Cavendish Laboratory Between 1926 and 1937
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58
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Sam
Devons |
Rutherford,
Cambridge and the Cavendish Lab
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73
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D
Shoenberg |
Rutherford
and the Cavendish
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80
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W Lewis |
Brief
memories of Rutherford
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84
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T
Allibone |
Rutherford,
Royal Society and Royal Institution
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91
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Dannin? |
?
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106
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B Kedrov |
He
Changed the Direction of all Science: Rutherford as a thinker
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125
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M
Oliphant |
Cambridge
Days
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150
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Wm Kay |
Memories
of Rutherford
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169
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N Shilov |
Professor
Rutherford's Laboratory
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176
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Niels
Bohr |
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Rutherford: Father of Nuclear Science
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199
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History
of the Rutherford Portrait on the Mond Lab
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207
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G Flerov
and M Tsitseniuk |
Reading
Rutherford
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Contents
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