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Leadership and Creativity

A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871–1919

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  1. Dong-Won Kim

    1. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea

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Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 5)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Beginning of the Cavendish Traditions, 1871–1879

    • Dong-Won Kim
    Pages 1-25

  3. Rayleigh’s Directorship, 1880–1884

    • Dong-Won Kim
    Pages 26-50

  4. J.J. Thomson’s First Ten Years at the Cavendish, 1885–1894

    • Dong-Won Kim
    Pages 51-92

  5. The Emergence of the Cavendish School, 1895–1900

    • Dong-Won Kim
    Pages 93-118

  6. J. J. Thomson’s Leadership and the Development of the Cavendish School, 1901–1914

    • Dong-Won Kim
    Pages 119-174

  7. The End of an Era, 1914–1919

    • Dong-Won Kim
    Pages 175-186

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 187-225
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About this book

Historical accounts of successful laboratories often consist primarily of reminiscences by their directors and the eminent people who studied or worked in these laboratories. Such recollections customarily are delivered at the celebration of a milestone in the history of the laboratory, such as the institution's fiftieth or one­ hundredth anniversary. Three such accounts of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have been recorded. The first of these, A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1910, was published in 1910 in honor of the twenty­ fifth anniversary of Joseph John Thomson's professorship there. The second, The Cavendish Laboratory, 1874-1974, was published in 1974 to commemorate the one­ hundredth anniversary of the Cavendish. The third, A Hundred Years and More of Cambridge Physics, is a short pamphlet, also published at the centennial of the 1 Cavendish. These accounts are filled with the names of great physicists (such as James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and William Lawrence Bragg), their glorious achievements (for example, the discoveries of the electron, the neutron, and DNA) and interesting anecdotes about how these achievements were reached. But surely a narrative that does justice to the history of a laboratory must recount more than past events. Such a narrative should describe a living entity and provide not only details of the laboratory's personnel, organization, tools, and tool kits, but should also explain how these components interacted within 2 their wider historical, cultural, and social contexts.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea

    Dong-Won Kim

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Leadership and Creativity

  • Book Subtitle: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871–1919

  • Authors: Dong-Won Kim

  • Series Title: Archimedes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2055-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0475-9Published: 30 April 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5956-7Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2055-7Published: 18 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1385-0180

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 226

  • Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History, general, Science Education

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