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History of Physics Group Links

The links below are to sites which may be of interest to anyone interested in the history of physics and related subjects. Comments and suggestions for URLs will be gratefully received by the Web editor.

General Physics and Physics-Related Sites

• in the UK
  • Archives of the IEE has History and Biographies
  • Best of History Physics lists articles from Physics World
  • British Society for the History of Mathematics
  • British Society for the History of Science
• Blue Plaques
  • Erected by English Heritage
  • Erected by the Institute of Physics
  • Erected in the South Central Branch of the Institute of Physics, Baird, Jackson, Woolley
• outside the UK
  • Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics
  • Internet history of science sourcebook

Specific Areas of Physics

• History of Crystallography (British Crystallographic Association)
• A brief history of optics
• History of radiation and radiation protection
• The Solar system: Moonwatch a project for Einstein year. Observers are asked to report their first sighting of the new crescent moon, used to calculate calendars for about 5000 years. If you want to find out more about the methods involved in calculating the first sighting of new crescent moon, Technical Note 69 produced by HM Nautical Almanac Office is available as a PDF document

Biographical Sites

Individuals

• Robert Boyle Project
• Albert Einstein Online
• Galileo
  • The Galileo Project (Rice Univeristy)
  • Galileo's notes on motion
• Sir William Rowan Hamilton
• Ernest Rutherford - site by Rutherford biographer John Campbell
• Alan Turing

Collections for many people

• Physicists on money
• History of mathematics Archive at St Andrews (over 1300 biographies including some physicists)
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics

Museums

• In the UK
  • The National Museum of Science and Industry London
  • Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
  • The Museum of Science and Industry Manchester
  • National valve museum
  • Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill, Sidmouth, Devon
• Outside the UK
  • Nobel e-museum
  • Museum of the History of Science, Florence

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