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  • Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France

    Creator:
    Nye, Mary Jo
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    Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean...
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    (Paris: Hermann, 1950). 2 On Bohm and de Broglie see James T. Cushing, Quantum Mechanics: Historical

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    , of course, well known cases of scientists such as Albert Einstein (1879 – 1975) who were enormously