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Rutherford and Physics at the Turn of the Century.
Mario Bunge and William Shea (Editors)

1979 Dawson and Science History Publications
ISBN 9-7129-0918-4
184 pages. Hard Cover.

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   In October 1977, McGill University and the Canada Council sponsored a Rutherford Symposium at McGill. This was attended by many foremost historians of Physics of the day and this book is a record of their papers.

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Contents

	Acknowledgements		v
	Preface		1
	The State of Physics at the Turn of the Century	Erwin Hiebert	3
	The Origin of Big Science: Rutherford at McGill	Lawrence Badash	23
	Physics at McGill in Rutherford's Time	John Heilbron	42
	Some Episodes of the Alpha-Particle Story, 1903-1977	Norman Feather	74
	Rutherford in the McGill Physics Laboratory	Thaddeus Trenn	89
	The Reality Beneath: The World View of Rutherford	Stanley Jaki	110
	1900; The Cavendish Physicists and the Spirit of the Ages	Neil Cameron	124
	Scientific Revolutionaries of 1905	Stephen Bush	140
	Astrophysics at the Turn of the Century	Guglielmo Righini	172

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