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Surname index to articles about people
in the History of Physics Group Newsletters

This is still being compiled issues covered so far: 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23.

There is also a subject index and a list of book reviews.

Click on any underlined issue and page number to read that article.
Click on an underlined bold name to read about their blue plaque.

person issue and page article title
W.T. Astbury No 19 page 17 The Braggs and Astbury: Leeds and the
beginning of Molecular Biology
Otto Baumbach No 23 page 44 Rutherford's Glassblower
Patrick Blackett No 23 page 44 Book Review: Physics, War and Politics in the 20th Century
W.H. and W.L. Bragg No 19 page 17 The Braggs and Astbury: Leeds and the
beginning of Molecular Biology
William Lawrence Bragg No 18 page 62 Book Review:
The Life and science of William Lawrence Bragg
James Chadwick Special
issue 49
Nucleus to Neutrons December 2012
Patrick Copland No 20 page 8 Aberdeen Historical Scientific Instruments
Albert Einstein No 17 page 42 Anticipating Einstein's Annus Mirablis
Herbert Frohlich No 20 page 15 Frohlich Centenary Symposium
William Rowan Hamilton No 12 page 23 A short biographical sketch
Hamilton year 2005 No 17 page 44 Hamilton year - 2005 events
William Rowan Hamilton No 19 page 12 Conical refraction: the radiant stranger
William Thomson Lord Kelvin No 23 page 5 Report of Lecture Series Kelvin 2007 4 articles
Oliver Lodge No 18 page 19 Sir Oliver Lodge and Relativity
  No 18 page 38 Lodge and Poynting - two brief character sketches
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev No 23 page 56 Inventor of the Periodic Table of the elements
Isaac Newton No 18 page 59 Newton's missing experiment
Sidney B, Osborn No 17 page 22 60 years of Medical Physics: seen through the eyes of one who went through it.
Max Perutz No 23 page 65 Book Review: Max Perutz and the Secret of Life
Michael Polanyi No 20 page 30 Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher
John Henry Poynting No 15 page 33 Blue Plaques for Physicists: John Henry Poynting
  No 18 page 30 John Henry Poynting: a sketch for future research
  No 18 page 38 Lodge and Poynting - two brief character sketches
Joseph Priestley No 19 page 40 an article by Peter Ford
Joseph Rotblat No 30 page 30 Book review: Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience
Ernest Rutherford No 18 page 5 Discoveries, Theories and Natural Philosophers
  No 30 page 3 Rutherford & the Nuclear Atom
  Special
issue 5, 39
Nucleus to Neutrons December 2012
Charles Bernard Spurgin No 17 page 10 Obituary by Stuart Leadstone
Edward Hutchinson Synge No 30 page 41 Book Review: Hutchie; theory of optics, near field microscopy etc
Joseph John Thomson No 18 page 5 Discoveries, Theories and Natural Philosophers
William Thomson Lord Kelvin No 23 page 5 Report of Lecture Series Kelvin 2007
Ernest Walton No 17 page 18 Book Review: Ernest Walton: an Irish Scientist



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