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http://www.pbs.org/transistor
The 50-year history of the transistor is the subject of Transistorized!,
a TV program and Web page produced jointly by the Public Broadcasting
Service and the American Institute of Physics. The TV program airs
on your local PBS station at 10pm on 8 November. |
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http://www.frightenstein.com/professor.html
Broadcast in Canada during the 1970s, the children's TV series The
Hilarious House of Frightenstein, featured The Professor, a manic
figure who demonstrated physics experiments. In fact, the Professor
was played by a real-life physics educator, Julius Sumner Miller,
whose obituary appeared in Physics Today's November 1987 issue
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ma/gallery
From the department of mathematical sciences at Loughborough University
in England comes The Gallery of Mathematics. Molecular dynamics simulations
are among the exhibits on display, as are Lyapunov pictures and so-called
self-referential sentences that make true statements about their alphabetical
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Compiled
by Charles Day
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1999 American Institute of Physics
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