Cavendish Laboratory

One of the most important extensions is the measurement of lateral forces (friction). Friction measurements have accompanied tlie SFA teclmique since its early begiimings in the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge [37] and a variety of different lateral force measurements are practised throughout tlie SFA conmumity. 

Tritium was first prepared in the Cavendish Laboratory by Rutherford, OHphant, and Harteck in 1934 (2,3) by the bombardment of deuterophosphoric acid using fast deuterons. The D—D nuclear reaction produced tritium ( D-H D — -H energy), but also produced some He by a... 

Oatley and a succession of brilliant students, collaborating with others at the Cavendish Laboratory, by degrees developed an effective instrument a key component was an efficient plastic scintillation counter for the image-forming... 

JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, and K. Tsukagoshi of Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory and R. H. Friend and S. Thomas of Cavendish Laboratory for valuable discussions. 

Report 63 Conductive Polymers II, R.H. Friend, University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory. 

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. 

Dr. E. M. Terentjev Cavendish Laboratory Madingley Road Cambridge CB 3 OHE United Kingdom emtl 000 cam.ac.uk... 

Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, England... 

Over the past few years, both at the Weizmann Institute and in the Cavendish Laboratory, we have used a modification of the mica approach to measure the interaction forces F(D) between two mica surfaces,a distance D apart,immersed in organic and aqueous liquid media, both in the absence and in the presence of polymer layers absorbed onto the mica from the liquid. We have studied a number of model systems covering a wide range of conditions, using monodispersed, well characterized polymers. 

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. 

Quoted in J. G. Crowther, The Cavendish Laboratory, 18741974, (New York Science History Publications, 1974) 38. Also see, Lawrence Badash, "The Completeness of Nineteenth-Century Science," Isis 63 (1972) 4858. 

A former student of Roscoe s, Schuster had been appointed to a new chair in applied mathematics at Manchester in 1881, following his studies at Heidelberg, Berlin, and the Cavendish Laboratory. One of his competitors for the position was J. J. Thomson, who had briefly been a student in engineering at Manchester under Osborne Reynolds. In his inaugural address, Schuster freely... 

Wood, Alexander. The Cavendish Laboratory. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1946. 

In his will, Cavendish left none of his money to science. Most likely he believed that, because the money had come from his family, it should go back to the family. The famous Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge was founded on the bequest of a relative 61 years after Henry Cavendish s death. He was buried in All Saint s Church in Derby, now Derby Cathedral, but there is no plaque in the cathedral to indicate his interment there. Most likely Cavendish would have been pleased to know that he was to be as anonymous in death as he was reclusive in life. 

In 1911 Bohr went to Cambridge, England, to do postdoctoral research at the Cavendish laboratory under J. J. Thomson. At the time,... 

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