Arthur Gordon Webster (November 28, 1863 – May 15, 1923) was an American physicist who founded the American Physical Society. Webster was born on November...
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Alexander Webster (New York politician) (1734–1810), a New York politician Andy Webster (footballer, born 1982), a Scottish football player Arthur Gordon Webster...
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analysis. Wills received his PhD from Clark University in 1897 under Arthur Gordon Webster with a thesis entitled: On the susceptibility of diamagnetic and...
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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called a "discussion group", which fellow members Haakon Chevalier and Gordon Griffiths later said was a "closed" (secret) unit of the Communist Party...
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John Hopfield (category MacArthur Fellows)
of light with solids". In 1983 he was awarded the MacArthur Foundational Prize by the MacArthur Fellows Program. In 1985, Hopfield received the Golden...
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Foundation directory 2003. Vastervik, Sweden: AB CO Ekblad; 2003. Fraser, Gordon (2012). "Chapter 7". The Quantum Exodus. Oxford University Press. p. 182...
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Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery...
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Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. p. 171. ISBN 1-56347-256-2. Arthur Gordon Webster (1904). The Dynamics of Particles and of Rigid, Elastic, and Fluid...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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Argonne Woods Forest Preserve, about 20 miles (32 km) from Chicago. Stone & Webster was contracted to develop the site, but the work was halted by an industrial...
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arranged as a cosmic ray telescope, and under the aegis of his faculty advisor Arthur Compton, conducted an experiment in Mexico City to measure the so-called...
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500 scholarship to study at Clark University as a doctoral student of Arthur Gordon Webster, but Webster wanted Bush to study acoustics, a popular field at the time...
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of the Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France. His textbook with Gordon Baym, Quantum Statistical Mechanics (ISBN 020141046X), is a prominent text...
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Bohr Library and Archives – Session V, interviewed by Lillian Hoddeson and Gordon Baym Oral History interview transcript with John Bardeen on 13 February...
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the original (PDF) on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2009. Arthur Gordon Webster (1912). The Dynamics of Particles and of Rigid, Elastic, and Fluid...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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Fowler and Jennie Summers Watson. Fowler was the eldest of his siblings, Arthur and Nelda. The family moved to Lima, Ohio, a steam railroad town, when Fowler...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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were purely speculative and based on spurious numerical arguments, such as Arthur Eddington's attempts to explain the value of the fine structure constant...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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"light" substituting for the word "microwave"). During 1953, Townes, James P. Gordon, and Herbert J. Zeiger built the first ammonia maser at Columbia University...
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1899–1925 Henry Augustus Rowland (1899) Albert A. Michelson (1901) Arthur Gordon Webster (1903) Carl Barus (1905) Edward Leamington Nichols (1907) Henry...
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