Class 32 (11/6)
Disciplinary acceleration: physics
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Nobel measures
Sites
An example: physics at Cal
Lawrence: the experimenter
The cyclotrons
Who pays
What is unique about Lawrence's work
Oppenheimer: the theorist
Elevating a native scientific community
American doctorates and other measures
The arrival of the emigres
The community of American physicists
Science, American-style
| Primary | Secondary |
| Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958, NP 1939)
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) The Physical Review Rockefeller Foundation |
Albert Michelson (1852-1931, NP 1907)
Robert Millikan (1868-1953, NP 1923) Arthur Compton (1892-1962, NP 1927) Carl Anderson (1905-1991, NP 1936) Clinton Davisson (1881-1958, NP 1937) American Physical Society George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) Mount Wilson, Palomar |