Photos and Quotes included in the
Fall 2008 Issue of the CHP Newsletter
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MYSTERY PHOTO This mystery photo’s description is: “Vivian Leroy Chrisler is in the box.” Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Can you identify who else is in the photo or explain what is going on? (Click to enlarge photo.) If so, please let us know: send e-mail to photos@aip.org; call 301- 209-3184; or write to AIP History Center, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 or fill out our online form with your answer (please mention this is for the Fall 2008 mystery photo). Thank you for your help! |
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| Werner Heisenberg playing table top tennis or ping pong at the
Gottingen Institute. Gift of and Photo Credit: Juan G. Roederer;
courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. |
William Thomson Lord Kelvin in old age. Photo is a gift of A. Rex Rivolo, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. | Robert Andrews Millikan and Greta Millikan, 1920. Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. |
In learning science, students need to understand that science reflects its history and is an ongoing changing enterprise. —National Science Education Standards |
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| Martin Harwit, in his office in the Space Sciences Building at Cornell University, circa 1982. Photo, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. | Nick Holonyak Jr. in his workshop. Photo Credit: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. |
Now and then scientists are hampered by believing one of the over-simplified models of science that have been proposed by philosophers from Francis Bacon to Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The best antidote to the philosophy of science is a knowledge of the history of science. —Steven Weinberg |
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Now and then scientists are hampered by believing one of the over-simplified models of science that have been proposed by philosophers from Francis Bacon to Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The best antidote to the philosophy of science is a knowledge of the history of science. —Steven Weinberg |
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| Sir Nevill Francis Mott at University of Bristol, International Conference on the Physics of Metals, organized by Mott and A. M. Tyndall, circa 1935. Photo Credit: Archives of HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. | Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Fermi at Varenna, Italy. Gift of and Photo credit by Juan G. Roederer, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. |
Each of us may be standing on the shoulders of giants; more often we stand on the graves of our predecessors. To know nothing about them is, to me, as limiting in one's self-regard as not knowing one's actual parents. —Gerald Holton |
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Jeff McBride, a magician showing Philip Morrison how our eyes can fool our minds. Photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection. |
Recognizing that a historical discovery is rarely quite the one attributed to its author in later textbooks (pedagogic goals inevitably transform a narrative), the historian should ask what his subject thought he had discovered and what he took the basis of his discovery to be. And in this process of reconstruction the historian should pay particular attention to the subject's apparent errors, not for their own sake but because they reveal far more of the mind at work than do the passages in which a scientist seems to record a result or an artugment that modern science still retains. —Thomas Kuhn |
