Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish by Dong-Won Kim

By Dong-Won Kim

ancient money owed of profitable laboratories frequently consist basically of memories through their administrators and the eminent those who studied or labored in those laboratories. Such reminiscences regularly are added on the party of a milestone within the background of the laboratory, resembling the institution's 50th or one­ hundredth anniversary. 3 such money owed of the Cavendish Laboratory on the college of Cambridge were recorded. the 1st of those, A background of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1910, used to be released in 1910 in honor of the twenty­ 5th anniversary of Joseph John Thomson's professorship there. the second one, The Cavendish Laboratory, 1874-1974, used to be released in 1974 to commemorate the single­ hundredth anniversary of the Cavendish. The 3rd, 100 Years and extra of Cambridge Physics, is a brief pamphlet, additionally released on the centennial of the 1 Cavendish. those bills are packed with the names of significant physicists (such as James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and William Lawrence Bragg), their wonderful achievements (for instance, the discoveries of the electron, the neutron, and DNA) and engaging anecdotes approximately how those achievements have been reached. yet absolutely a story that does justice to the heritage of a laboratory needs to recount greater than earlier occasions. this kind of narrative should still describe a residing entity and supply not just information of the laboratory's group of workers, association, instruments, and gear kits, yet must also clarify how those parts interacted inside 2 their wider old, cultural, and social contexts.

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