The Incomplete Transmission of a European Image: Physics at Greater Buenos Aires and Montreal, 1890-1920

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Author/collaborator
Title
The Incomplete Transmission of a European Image: Physics at Greater Buenos Aires and Montreal, 1890-1920
Abstract
The introduction and evolution of the teaching of physics at McGill University prior to the First World War. The author argues that after Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) left McGill after teaching there from 1898 to 1907, the quality of physics research at the university went into decline.
Publication
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Volume
Vol. 122
Issue
no. 2
Pages
92-114
Date
April 24, 1978
Language
en
Citation
Pyenson, Lewis. “The Incomplete Transmission of a European Image: Physics at Greater Buenos Aires and Montreal, 1890-1920.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 122, no. 2 (April 24, 1978): 92–114.
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