The Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics has a mission to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied sciences including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like.

Describes history of most important invention of the 20th century: the transistor. Also... see the television documentary hosted by Ira Flatow, airing on local PBS station fall, 1999 . The web site is a co-production of ScienCentral, Inc. and The American Institute of Physics, and the TV documentary is a co-production of Twin Cities Public Television and ScienCentral, Inc.

The Emilio Segre Visual Archives of the AIP Center for History of Physics is the world's largest collection of photographs, films and other images in the history of physics and allied sciences such as astronomy and geophysics.

An exhibit by the AIP Center for History of Physics with text, animations and voice about J.J. Thomson's 1897 experiments which helped bring understanding of the electron as a fundamental unit of matter.

AIP HOME PAGE AIP & Its Member Societies Online Journal Publishing Service AIP Journals Magazines, Books & Proceedings Publishing Services Employment & Industry Education & Student Services Science Policy History Center Working at AIP Site Index Center for History of Physics Newsletter Here are reports on work in the history of physics (and allied fields such as astronomy and geophysics), ...

PHYSICS IN AUSTRALIA TO 1945 Bibliography and Biographical Register Compiled by R.W.Home with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Contents Introduction Search for a name or term Browse alphabetically by name from A-K and L-Z 1922 Solar Eclipse in Australia - Testing Einstein's Theory Originally published by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne and the ...

General relativity Mathematical Physics index History Topics Index General relativity is a theory of gravitation and to understand the background to the theory we have to look at how theories of gravitation developed. Aristotle's notion of the motion of bodies impeded understanding of gravitation for a long time. He believed that force could only be applied by contact, force at a distance being ...

Galileo and Einstein Lecture Notes by Michael Fowler Summary of the Course The course explores two revolutions in our perception of the universe. The first, in which Galileo played the leading role, was the realization that what we see in the heavens -- the moon, the planets, the sun and stars -- are physical objects. For example, the moon has a rocky surface, not unlike some parts of earth, and ...

Arthur Schawlow biography Charles Townes biography Bell Labs Historical Contributions Lucent Threw a Party and Everyone Came Bell Labs and Lucent's Contributions to Laser Research Copyright 1998 Lucent Technologies. Comments Contact the webmaster. Schawlow and Townes Invent the Laser The invention of the laser, which stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, can be ...

Institute and Museum of History of Science The discovery of the weight of air, and the existence of the vacuum. A tribute to Evangelista Torricelli The vacuum exists and air has weight: these are the revolutionary concepts proved by the famous experiment of Evangelista Torricelli, performed in Florence in 1644. This discovery is the subject of a working exhibition, which reproduces the ...

A History of Electromagneticss ...

HISTORY | CONSTRUCTION | SPARKS | TOUCHING LIGHTNING | FRANKLIN'S KITE | TESLA COILS | LIGHTNING | SAFETY QUIZ | TEACHER RESOURCES | VIDEO GALLERY | PICTURE GALLERY ...

PHYSICS IN PHILATELY by Jerzy H. Rutkowski Until now over two thousand stamps closely related to physics have been issued. Here are exhibited only those which appeared up to 1930. The oldest of them is the first United States postage stamp issued in 1847 which featuring a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, a great stateman and a well-known physicist. Next edition (issued in 1923) aiming at ...

Experiments in 1956 demonstrate that our world is distinguishable from its mirror image ...

Physics and Astronomy People Jocelyn Bell Niels Bohr Albert Einstein Jim Gates Murray Gell-Mann Werner Heisenberg Edwin Hubble Henrietta Leavitt J. Robert Oppenheimer Max Planck Ernest Rutherford Erwin Schrodinger Steven Weinberg Discoveries 1900 Planck discovers the quantum nature of energy 1905 Einstein publishes the special theory of relativity 1912 Leavitt discovers a correlation between ...

Welcome to THE PHYSICS MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND This stuff is still in construction Internal Links Introduction A Tour of the Museum Items added by PH360 1997 Items added by PH360 1998 Items added by PH360 1999 A look in the Storeroom The Catalogue of the Museum The Physics Department Museum Library The Pitch Drop Experiment The Pitch Drop Live! Skeleton clock collection Robert ...

Information on the history of science, History of science information ...

A Century of Physics Discoveries ...