Apparatus Named After Our Academic Ancestors ¿ I

• Autores: Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 48, Nº. 9, 2010, págs. 604-606
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Let us now praise famous physicists, and the apparatus named after them, with apologies to the writer of Ecclesiastes. I once compiled a list of about 300 pieces of apparatus known to us as Xs Apparatus. Some of the values of X are familiar, like Wheatstone and Kelvin and Faraday, but have you heard of Pickering or Rhumkorff or Barlow? In an earlier article about Packards apparatus,1I paid homage to an early20thcentury high school teacher, and other articles have mentioned apparatus by a number of other physicists and physics teachers.2In many cases the apparatus came directly out of research being done by the physicist, or from the need to show the phenomena of physics in the classroom and lecture hall. Here are more stories about apparatus and their makers, starting with three pieces of apparatus that are related to the development of electron physics in the latter half of the 19th century.