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John Dalton, FRS 1766-1844
A
New System of Chemical Philosophy 1808 (Classic Papers) |
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Weisstein
Lynch
Woodrow
Wilson
Charlesworth
EuCheMS
Millenium
chemsoc
Dublin
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Path
to the Periodic Table (Chemical Heritage)
Identifying
the Invisible (Fromm)
Atoms
(Fromm)
Atoms
(Charlesworth) |
Avogadro
1776-1856
Italian
Avogadro's Hypothesis 1811 (Chem Team)
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Sir John Herschel, FRS
1792-1871 (Cambridge)
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St.
Andrew's
Dublin
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William Whewell, FRS
1794-1866 (Trinity)
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Victorian Web
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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William
Henry Fox Talbot, FRS
1800-1877 (Cambridge)
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St.
Andrew's
BBC
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Fox
Talbot Museum of Photography
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Charles Wheatstone 1802-1875
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BBC
King's College Physics
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electricity
timeline
Pioneers
in Optics
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James Joule, FRS
1818-1889
On
the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat 1845 (Chem Team)
Some
Remarks on Heat and the constitution of Elastic Fluids 1851
(Classic Papers)
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Weisstein
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photo
of Joule's paddlewheel apparatus
Conservation
of Energy & Thermodynamics (Victorian Web)
Electromagnetic
Personalities
Heat
(Fromm)
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Fourier
1768-1830 French
Carnot
1796-1832 French
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Sir George Stokes
1819-1903 (Cambridge)
President of the Royal Society
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St.
Andrews
Weisstein
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Electromagnetic
Personalities
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William Thomson, Lord
Kelvin 1824-1907 (Cambridge)
President of the Royal Society
On
an Absolute Thermometric Scale 1848 (Classic Papers)
On
the Dynamical Theory of Heat 1852 (Classic Papers)
Wave
Theory of Light 1884 (Modern History Sourcebook)
Electricity
and Atomic Structure 1902 (Chem Team)
buried at Westminster
Abbey
memorial
window
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Leyden
jar
voltmeter
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St.
Andrews
Weisstein
BBC
San Jose
State
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Conservation of
Energy & Thermodynamics (Victorian Web)
Electromagnetic
Personalities
Heat
(Fromm)
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Helmholtz
1821-1894 German
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James
Clerk Maxwell, FRS 1831-1879 (Trinity)
First Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics
Limitation
of the Second Law of Thermodynamics 1872 (Classic
Papers)
Molecules
1873 (Victorian Web)
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Museum at the
Cavendish
viscosity
of gases
other
apparatus
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St.
Andrews
Victorian
Web
Weisstein
King's
College Physics
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electricity
timeline
History
of Cavendish Lab
Electromagnetic
Personalities
James
Clerk Maxwell Foundation
pioneers
in optics
link to photography
behavior
of gases (Fromm)
Laidler
part 2
Laidler
part 3
charge
and current (Victorian Web)
Conservation
of Energy & Thermodynamics (Victorian Web)
wave
theory of
light (Victorian Web)
ether and
field theories (Victorian Web)
Lynch
magnetism
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Clausius
1822-1888 German |
Sir William Crookes
1832-1919
President of the Royal Society
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apparatus
for electron discovery
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Weisstein
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cathode
rays
(Cavendish)
Famous
Scientists (Fromm)
Isotopes (Fromm)
cathode
rays (Fromm)
half-life
(Fromm)
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Sir William Henry Perkin,
FRS 1838-1907
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mauve
dye
VictorianWeb on style:
homes
dress
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EuCheMS
Millenium
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Perkin
Medal (Chemical Heritage)
Chemical
Achievers (Chemical Heritage)
History of Imperial College
Imperial College
Synthetic
Organic Chemistry (Fromm)
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Baeyer
1835-1917 German
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John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
1842-1919 (Trinity)
Cavendish Professor of Experimental
Physics
President of the Royal Society
Density
of Nitrogen 1892 (Classic Papers)
Argon
1895 (Classic Papers) |
spinning
coil
standards
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St.
Andrews
Nobel
(1904 physics)
Weisstein |
History
of Cavendish Lab
Electromagnetic
Personalities
pioneers
in optics
Royal
Institution
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Sir William Ramsay 1852-1916
An
Undiscovered Gas 1897 (Classic Papers)
Experiments
in Radioactivity, and the Production of Helium from Radium
1903 (Classic Papers)
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Weisstein
Nobel
(1904 chemistry)
EuCheMS
Millenium
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Chemical
Achievers
Trail of
the
Elements (Fromm)
Periodic
Table of the Lecturers
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Sir Joseph John Thomson 1856-1940
(Trinity)
Cavendish Professor of Experimental
Physics
President of the Royal Society
Cathode
Rays 1897 (Classic Papers)
Cathode
Rays 1899 (Chem Team)
On
the Structure of the Atom 1904 (Chem Team)
buried at Westminster
Abbey
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apparatus
used for electron discovery (Cambridge)
apparatus
diagrams (AIP)
electroscope
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Nobel
(1906 physics)
Charlesworth
Weisstein
chemsoc
U. Manchester
Nobels
Manchester
Physics
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History
of Cavendish Lab
Discovery of the
Electron (AIP)
Science
Museum online exhibit
Cavendish educational
site
Cavendish
biography
Cavendish
discovery of electron
Cavendish
positive rays
Chemical
Achievers
Great
Names in Mass Spectrometry
The
Electrons (Charlesworth)
Isotopes
(Fromm)
cathode
rays (Fromm)
Royal
Institution
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Millikan
1868-1953 American |
Charles Wilson, FRS
1869-1959 (Cambridge)
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Nobel
(1927 physics)
U. Manchester
Nobels
Weisstein
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Cavendish
biography
Cavendish cloud chamber
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Lord Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937
(Trinity)
Cavendish Professor of Experimental
Physics
President of the Royal Society
Uranium
Radiation (Chem Team)
Structure
of the Atom 1911 (Chem Team)
buried at Westminster
Abbey
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movie
of gold foil experiment
animated
scattering expt
backscattering
experiment
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Nobel
(1908 chemistry)
Nobel
archive
Weisstein
Charlesworth
EuCheMS
Millenium
chemsoc
PBS
BBC
U. Manchester
Nobels
Manchester
Physics
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pioneers
in optics
atomic
structure PBS
Cambridge science landmarks
History
of Cavendish Lab
Cavendish educational
site
Cavendish
discovery of the nucleus
Cavendish
biography
Chemical
Achievers
The
Electrons (Charlesworth)
The
Nuclear Atom (Charlesworth)
radioactivity (Fromm)
half-life (Fromm)
Royal
Institution
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Curie
1867-1934 Polish |
Francis Aston, FRS
1877-1945 (Trinity)
Isotopes
and Atomic Weights 1920 (Chem Team)
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apparatus
for positive rays
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Nobel
(1922 Chemistry)
EuCheMS
Millenium
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Cavendish
biography
mass spectroscopy
Isotopes
(Fromm)
Great
Names in Mass Spectrometry
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Frederick Soddy, FRS
1877-1956 (Oxford)
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Nobel
(1921 Chemistry)
Weisstein
EuCheMS
Millenium
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half-life
(Fromm)
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Owen Richardson, FRS 1879-1959
(Trinity)
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Nobel
(1928 physics)
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Henry Moseley 1887-1915
(Oxford)
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Weisstein
Manchester
Physics
Charlesworth
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Sir James Chadwick, FRS 1891-1974
(Cambridge)
The
Existence of a Neutron 1932 (Chem Team) |
paraffin
wax
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Nobel
(1935 physics)
Weisstein
PBS
U. Manchester
Nobels
Manchester
Physics
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world class
awards
Cavendish
educational site
discovery
of the neutron
Cavendish
biography
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Bohr
1885-1962 Danish
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Sir George P. Thomson, FRS
1892-1975 (Trinity)
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Nobel
(1937 physics)
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Cavendish
biography
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Fermi
1901-1954 Italian
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Sir John Cockcroft
1897-1967 (Cambridge)
Ernest Walton 1903-1995 (Cambridge)
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Cockcroft-Walton
machine
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Nobel
(1951 physics)
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splitting
the atom
Cavendish
biography (JC)
Transmutation
(Fromm)
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Lawrence
1901-1958 American
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Patrick Blackett 1897-1974
(Cambridge)
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bubble
chamber
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Nobel (1948 physics)
Weisstein
U. Manchester
Nobels
Manchester
Physics
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Anderson
1905-1991 American
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Paul Dirac, FRS 1902-1984
(Cambridge)
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Nobel (1933 physics)
St.
Andrews
Weisstein
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Dirac
Centennial Celebration
Transmutation
(Fromm)
Royal Society
Institute of
Physics
Physics
Web
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Schrödinger
1887-1961 Austrian
Heisenberg 1901-1976 German
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