Download PDF by Dong-Won Kim: Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish

old bills of profitable laboratories frequently consist basically of recollections by means of their administrators and the eminent those who studied or labored in those laboratories. Such reminiscences frequently are brought on the social gathering of a milestone within the heritage of the laboratory, resembling the institution's 50th or one­ hundredth anniversary. 3 such debts of the Cavendish Laboratory on the college of Cambridge were recorded. the 1st of those, A background of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1910, used to be released in 1910 in honor of the twenty­ 5th anniversary of Joseph John Thomson's professorship there. the second one, The Cavendish Laboratory, 1874-1974, was once released in 1974 to commemorate the single­ hundredth anniversary of the Cavendish. The 3rd, 100 Years and extra of Cambridge Physics, is a brief pamphlet, additionally released on the centennial of the 1 Cavendish. those bills are jam-packed with the names of serious physicists (such as James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and William Lawrence Bragg), their wonderful achievements (for instance, the discoveries of the electron, the neutron, and DNA) and engaging anecdotes approximately how those achievements have been reached. yet definitely a story that does justice to the historical past of a laboratory needs to recount greater than previous occasions. the sort of narrative should still describe a residing entity and supply not just information of the laboratory's team of workers, association, instruments, and gear kits, yet also needs to clarify how those parts interacted inside 2 their wider old, cultural, and social contexts.