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History of physics
General
- PSIgate
has a large list of annotated history links and searchable
timelines
- Net
Advance of Physics also has links, especially to online articles,
but many dead links
- PhysLink
History of Physics and Astronomy guide - some additional links
- "This week in physics
history" (scroll down to find list)
- "This
month in physics history" (scroll down to Departments)
- From
the Greeks to Einstein, by Michael Fowler: Galileo, Newton,
and more
- History
of Cosmology from Antiquity to Einstein and beyond by Jose Wudka
- History
of Mathematics Archives includes Topics
in history of mathematical physics – with articles on
time, light, gravitation and other relativity topics – and
biographies of many physicists from Aristotle to Feynman
- Large physics timeline
- Timeline
of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics including a brief history
of string theory
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Classic Papers ("chemistry" including atomic physics,
thermodynamics, radioactivity)
- Timeline
of Electricity and Magnetism
- Timeline
of atomic structure discoveries
- History
of Crystallography
- “Absolute Zero”
- Website of TV program , with Milestones
in Cold Research
- History of
Optics Timeline and History
of Optics Highlights
- Guide
to Harvard Collection of Scientific Instruments
- Bureau of
Standards/NIST virtual museum: measurement of Length,
Time,
Frequency,
etc.
Before 1900
Since 1900
Radiation & nuclear
Accelerators & particles
Useful devices
People
Alphabetical list of physicists
These are not listed because they're the most important people, but
because the Websites are especially good or interesting. To locate
archival collections, interviews, etc. for an individual, consult
our International
Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences.
- André-Marie
Ampère
- Archimedes
- John
Bahcall, an interview
- John Bell
- Niels Bohr's Nobel
biography, career
highlights, another short
biography; the Bohr
Archives including Bohr-Heisenberg
letters
- Robert Boyle
- Edward
Condon and Cold War Politics by Jessica Wang
- Marie Curie;
Marie Curie
and US Radium Standards
- Robert
Dicke and relativity by J. Zirker
- P.A.M. Dirac
- Albert Einstein
and our Einstein
links
- Michael
Faraday
- Enrico Fermi
links
- Richard Feynman and
Feynman Links
- Feynman talks: Plenty
of Room at the Bottom, Robb
Memorial Lectures (video)
- Franklin Tercentenary
1706-2006; Ben
Franklin, scientist; Franklin
and Electrostatics; Franklin's
Kite; Franklin
and Lightning Rods
- Galileo's Battle
by PBS-Nova and the Trial
of Galileo; Galileo,
Copernicus & Mathematical Physics; the Galileo
Project and a manuscript;
Article on the Tower
of Pisa Legend; Galileo
and Renaissance Art
- William
Rowan Hamilton
- Stephen Hawking's Page and
Hawking Page by N.
Donaldson
- Werner Heisenberg
- Robert
Hooke, Natural Philosopher (BBC) and RobertHooke.org
(Westminster School)
- Joseph
Henry
- Christiaan Huygens
- Kelvin
(William Thomson) and his
voice.
- Igor Kurchatov
- Karl
Lark-Horovitz
- E.O. Lawrence and
the cyclotron;
Lawrence and his laboratory
- Joseph
Loschmidt
- James
Clerk Maxwell; his youth;
BBC
radio production on Maxwell (streaming audio)
- Albert
A. Michelson
- Isaac Newton
Links, the Newton
Project including manuscripts;
a Newton
Chymistry and optics notebook
- Emmy
Noether by N. Byers
- J. Robert
Oppenheimer, and documents on the Oppenheimer security
hearings
- Frank Oppenheimer
and his Exploratorium
- Wolfgang
Pauli
- Linus Pauling,
his research
notebooks and work on the
nature of the chemical bond
- Max Planck
- I. I. Rabi
(J. Rigden)
- Osborne
Reynolds (as in the number)
- Ernest Rutherford
- Andrei Sakharov
- Erwin
Schrodinger
- Julian Schwinger
by K. Milton
- Glenn Seaborg
- Arnold Sommerfeld
archive (in German)
- Leo Szilard page
- Edward
Teller celebration & links
- Eugene
Wigner
History of astronomy/space science/geophysics/
Planets, space science, geophysics
People
(To locate archival collections, interviews, etc. for an individual,
consult our International
Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences.
)
Histories of institutions
Mainly physics
Astronomy/space science/geophysics
Picture sources
General physics - General history
General history of science links, information
History of science community
Societies & committees
Archival resources
Archives of individual scientific institutions
Reports on materials in selected archives
From our Newsletter:
- Agilent
Technologies
- American
Philosophical Society Library
- American
Meteorogical Society Library and Archives
- The
AT&T Archives and History Center
- The
Bakken Library and Museum (Electricity and Biomedicine)
- Bristol
University
- Brookhaven
National Laboratory
- Churchill
Archive Centre, Cambridge
- Columbia
University Archives
- CSIRO
- German
Physical Society Archive
- History
of Science Archive at the Museum of Astronomy, Rio de Janeiro
- Imperial
College, London
- Los
Alamos National Laboratory
- The
Max Planck Society
- MIT
Institute Archives
- National
Academy of Sciences
- National
Center for Atmospheric Research
- National
Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Radium
Institute, Paris
- Smithsonian
Institution Archives and oral
history interviews
- Strasbourg
University
- University
of Albany, SUNY
- University
of Minnesota Library
- University
of Oklahoma Libraries
- University
of Chicago Library
- US Presidential Libraries: Franklin
D. Roosevelt Library, Harry
S. Truman Library,
Dwight
D. Eisenhower Library, John
F. Kennedy Library, Lyndon
B. Johnson Library,
Richard
Nixon Library, Jimmy
Carter Library, Ronald
Reagan Library
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