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AIP-Center for History of Physics

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Images
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
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URL: 

http://www.aip.org/history/

Author: 
American Institute of Physics
Excerpt: 

Marie Sklodowska Curie opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy. Her work not only influenced the development of fundamental science but also ushered in a new era in medical research and treatment.

Annotation: 

The American Institute of Physics has combined exhibits with educational syllabi, and archives in this deep site. Included are exhibits about Madame Currie, Albert Einstein, the electron, the transistor and Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle. Archives include thousands of digitized images in the Emilio Sagres visual archive, and the book and manuscript catalogue of the Neils Bohr library. The site also includes online syllabi and sample readings for history of physics teachers, information about accessing information at AIP, and online newsletters relating to the library and Center for History of Physics.

Lighting the Way-An Experiment in Participatory History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Library/Archive
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/lightproject/

Author: 
Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of American History
Excerpt: 

On this Web site, we hope to use the Internet to gather--as well as present--history. With your help, we want to explore changes in the science and technology of electric lighting over the past 30 years, especially the effects of energy issues on lighting.

Annotation: 

This project, produced by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, looks to expand the recent history of electric lighting and energy issues relating to lighting. An example of "participatory history," there is an attempt to record online the stories and memories of the people who have produced or dealt with electric lighting. This group includes: electricians, engineers, electrical researchers, inventors, utility workers, city planners, architects, retailers, consumers, and anyone else who has taken part in the buying, selling, installing, and designing electric lighting. Extensive input forms are available for each of these groups to add to the electronic archive the Smithsonian is building. The site also includes historical essays on commercial, industrial and residential lighting, particularly focusing on the last 30 years. An extensive bibliography, including articles and books from both professional societies and the popular press, adds to the background material on the site.

History of Microbiology Archival Projects

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Primary Source
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://HISTMICRO.YALE.EDU/

Author: 
William C. Summers-American Society of Microbiology
Excerpt: 

This "experimental history project" so to speak, is part of a program supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to explore the possibilities of using the internet to increase the collection of archival material in the history of recent science to supplement and complement expensive and time consuming oral history interviews and preparation of autobiographical memoirs. This site includes three projects devoted to topics in microbiology being developed and maintained through a grant to the American Society for Microbiology. Parallel projects are being developed by the Society for Neuroscience and the American Society for Virology.

Annotation: 

This site provides essays, timelines, and personal recollections of the history of research on plasmids, extremophiles and second generation antibiotics. Currently, only the plasmid portion of the site is fully developed. A timeline of plasmid research outlines major breakthroughs from 1903-1969, a glossary covers most of the important terms related to the field, and an extensive bibliography covers published papers on plasmids from the 1940s and 50s. Microbiologists and others involved with plasmid research can add their comments and recollections to the site's archive. In addition, the site contains links to other sites and professional associations interested in the history of microbiology.

Resources on The Tuskegee Study

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • University
URL: 

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/tuskegee.html

Excerpt: 

Throughout the forty years of the study it was periodically reivewed by U.S. Health Service officials. In each case the study was extended based on the argument that stopping the study, while helping these individuals, would interfere with the benefits to medical science of studying this untreated disease (Jones, 1989). For a justification of the study by one of the researchers, see the following movie. The study was stopped by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare only after its existence was leaked to the public and it became a political embarrassment.

Annotation: 

Collection of online resources regarding the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Includes links to articles, primary documents, images, and documentaries.

Rachel Carson Homestead

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Personal
URL: 

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Author: 
Linda Lear
Excerpt: 

Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

Annotation: 

This site features a short biography of Rachel Carson in addition to bibliographic collections of books by and about Carson. Of interest to researchers would be the collection of links of online Carson resources. A more general listing of links is also made available.

Leo Szilard Online

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Corporation
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html

Excerpt: 

Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work.

Annotation: 

Site contains several biographies of the physicist and biophysicist Leo Szilard. Interviews and other primary sources are made available, as well as links to other sites for potential research. A number of images are present as is an extensive bibliography.

Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

Author: 
Mitchell C. Brown, Mathematics and Physics Librarian, Fine Library, Princeton University
Excerpt: 

Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The accomplishments of the past and present can serve as pathfinders to present and future engineers and scientists. African American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians have contributed in both large and small ways that can be overlooked when chronicling the history of science. By describing the scientific history of selected African American men and women we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human understanding in the world around us.

Annotation: 

This site contains biographical profiles of over 200 African-American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The site provides brief (roughly 250 word) biographies of scholars from fields such as biology, chemistry, physics, zoology, and veterinary medicine, as well as inventors. Among the scientists included in the site are prominent figures like George Washington Carver, scientist and inventor of numerous industrial applications for agricultural products, and astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker. Each entry also includes a bibliography of sources for further biographical information. The site is indexed by scientist name and profession, and there are special sections for the biographies of 20 women scientists and 14 of the first African Americans to receive Ph.D.'s in science. Though there are no primary documents on this site, it is a good place to find general information on prominent African-American scientists throughout American history.

History of an Apology

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://www.researchpractice.com/archive/apology.shtml

Excerpt: 

Forty years later, a CDC researcher, horrified by the study's continuation, gave his notes to an Associated Press reporter who broke the story in the nation's media in July 1972. With the ensuing publicity and uproar, there was a Senate hearing, state and federal investigating commissions, and a $1.8 billion lawsuit filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray that was settled out of court in 1974 for $10 million

Annotation: 

Part of a site maintained by the Center for Clinical Research Practice, this page archives an article which won The American Writers Association 1998 Award for Excellence in Medical Communication. It relates the the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and the long road to acknowledgment and apology by the US government which finally came from the Clinton administration sixty years later.

Caltech Archives Photonet

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://archives.caltech.edu//photoNet.html

Author: 
California Institute of Technology Archives
Excerpt: 

PhotoNet is an online database containing thousands of images from the Archives' collection of visual material.

Annotation: 

This online database of over 3,000 images from the California Institute of Technology's archive of visual materials illustrates the history of science from the Scientific Revolution to the present. Photographs, fine prints, book illustrations, paintings, and architectural drawings of various scientists and their projects, including Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, George Ellery Hale, and Linus Pauling are found in the database. Images are accompanied by a brief (roughly 150-word) biography and, in many cases, a photograph or other image of the scientist(s) involved in the project. The site can be browsed through two sub-categories, "Science and Technological artifacts" and "Rare Books," as well as a keyword search by scientist name or subject. This site provides an ideal tool for research on the history of science and prominent scientific figures.

Szilard, Leo (1898-1964)

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Biographical
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Engineering
  • Images
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html

Author: 
Gene Dannen
Excerpt: 

Welcome to the world of physicist, biophysicist, and "scientist of conscience" Leo Szilard (1898-1964). How do you say it? Say SIL-ahrd.

Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work.

In his classic 1929 paper on Maxwell's Demon, Szilard identified the unit or "bit" of information. The World Wide Web that you now travel, and the computers that make it possible, show the importance of his long-unappreciated idea.

Annotation: 

This site is dedicated to the life and work of Leo Szilard, a European physicist who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, but protested its use. The site focuses on Szilard's role in advocating arms control. The opening page is basic in design, with a couple of images, a small amount of text, and a list of links. A visitor must follow these links to find the bulk of the information. The site contains images, transcriptions of interviews and speeches, audio clips, a short bibliography, a biographical timeline, and links to external sources of information. Perhaps the most useful of these external links take a browser to the online index to the Leo Szilard papers housed at the University of California, San Diego.

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