ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066421

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年代:1949

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Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening‐up which has had its effect on our lives and our thinking; and, it seems to me, it is the emblem of the naked imagination—which is called abstract and impractical, but whose discoveries can be used by anyone who is interested, in whatever “field”—an imagination which for me, more than that of any other figure in American thought, any poet, or political, or religious figure, stands for imagination at its essential points.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066422

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

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摘要:

Choosing his equipment and his materials carefully, the physicist most often studies different bits of matter to find the properties they have in common. He works from a diversity of material to a unity of principle that encompasses all the material he studies.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066391

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

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摘要:

Within the next month or two many of the physics journals will appear with reduced margins and with less space between the lines.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066393

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

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摘要:

There is a good deal to physics besides nuclei, uncertainty, and relativity, as every hopeful student learns. Much of it, however, has disappeared from the forefront of science, some of it moving to the engineers, and the rest remaining mostly a storehouse of tools, useful in the free‐for‐all attack on the current frontier. I can remember that spectroscopy was once a romantic subject, with its explanation of the “nebulium” lines. So was the conduction of electricity through gases.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066394

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

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ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066397

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066399

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

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摘要:

In a torrential downpou‐such as drenched New Haven during the meetings of the American Astronomical Society, December 28–31, 1948, at Yale University, everyone looks more or less the same—but this alone could not account for the difficulty I had in distinguishing astronomers from physicists.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066401

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年代:1949

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The winter meeting of the American Society for X‐ray and Electron Diffraction was held at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, December 16–18, 1948.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066403

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年代:1949

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A. Herman Pfund, professor emeritus of physics at Johns Hopkins University and a pioneer in the science of optics, died January 4, at the age of 69.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3066407

出版商:AIP    

年代:1949

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