Reminiscences and discoveries the (London) physics club, 1928-1953
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20315412 |
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| Authors | Philip Moon (0000-0002-8609-4516, Shropshire Council, corresponding author), Philip Burton Moon (8 Oaks Road, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 7AX) |
| Editors | Desmond George King-Hele (8 Oaks Road, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 7AX) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171-174 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.1992.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W2011990783 |
| Language | EN |
In the later 1920s, and into the earlier 1930s, the dominance of Cambridge in British physics was being notably diminished by migration of well-established but still young men, mostly already Fellows of the Royal Society, to senior posts elsewhere. Such a redistribution of talent was not new, but by 1928 a distinctly faster stream had moved away, notably to Bristol (Lennard-Jones, Skinner, Powell) and to London (Andrade to University College, Appleton to King’s). Soon after the London Physics Club’s formation, G.P. Thomson came to Imperial College from Aberdeen, Blackett left Cambridge for Birkbeck, Hartree and E.J. Williams for Manchester, and Mott for Bristol
Art history · Club · Dominance (genetics) · Management · Media studies · Sociology · Chemistry · History · History and Developments in Astronomy · International Science and Diplomacy · Medicine · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
| Highly cited | No |
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