Cambridge Cavendish Physical Laboratory

Kulbinder K. Banger, University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Optoelectronics, Department of Physics, Cambridge, UK... 

See Nier, "Emergence of Physics," 279. William Thomson set up the first physics laboratory of its kind in Britain at the University of Glasgow. Alexander Wood, The Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1946) 1. 

The plum pudding structure of the atom was short-lived. It was disproved by Ernest Rutherford, one of Thomsons best students. Rutherford was an unlikely scientist. He was born and raised in rural New Zealand, about as far as you can get from the worlds scientific centers. He became interested in science while in elementary school. He did well at it immediately, winning scholarship after scholarship and degree after degree, all in physics or mathematics. At age 23, Rutherford got the job he wanted. He was awarded a fellowship to study at Cambridge. He elected to work with J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory, the most advanced physics lab in the world. 

In 1919 Rutherford succeeded Thomson as director of Cambridge s Cavendish laboratory, and in that position did less research. However, the experimental work that was done by others under his direction was significant (some of it will be discussed in the next chapter). Rutherford had a positive influence on numerous young scientists, and the Cavendish laboratory remained as important a center for physics research as it had been under Thomson. 

Professor of physics at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. He made elaborate investigations of the electrochemical equivalent of silver and of the combining volumes and compressibilities of gases. His observation that nitrogen prepared from the atmosphere is heavier than nitrogen prepared from ammonia led to the discovery of argon, the first noble gas. He also contributed to optics and acoustics. 

Prof. Sam Edwards, University of Cambridge, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK Prof. Hiroshi Fujita, 35 Shimotakedono-cho, Shichiku, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603 Japan Prof. Gottfried Glockner, Technische Universit t Dresden, Sektion Chemie,... 

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK. u.steiner phy. cam.ac.uk... 

The discovery of the electron first showed that the physics and chemistry of the nineteenth century were inadequate. The electron is a particle nearly two thousand times lighter than a hydrogen atom and electrons are contained in every kind of matter. At oms contain electrons and so are not merely indi-visible hard parthJeg The existence of electrons was established about 1897 by J. J. Thomson in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England. Wiechert and Kaufmann in Germany at the same time also carried out experiments which indicated the existence of electrons. The theory of electrons was rapidly developed by J. J. Thomson, H. A. Lorentz, and many others. 

At Cambridge, Lord Rayleigh was in charge of the Cavendish Laboratory, established hardly a decade before by a descendant of the family of Cavendish. Rayleigh was the successor to the first occupant of the chair of experimental physics, James Clerk-Maxwell, that great genius who laid the foundations of the... 

Franklin went up to Cambridge in 1938. With the start of the Second World War in 1939, the senior scientists were given war-related research and their time with students dwindled. With the lack of supervision, Franklin, working in the Cavendish Laboratory, enjoyed the opportunity for independent work however, she did not get a first class degree. Her supervisor in Physical Chemistry, Fred Dainton,73 provided the reason ... 

Slater was invited to work with J. J. Thomson57 at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where she studied the decay products of thorium from 1903 to 1905. That year, she accepted a position as Science Teacher at KEVI, staying there until 1909, when she took up an offer of Science Teacher at Cheltenham Ladies College. In 1913, she returned to Newnham, this time as Assistant Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry, being promoted to Lecturer in 1914. 

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