The Cavendish Laboratory 1874–1974

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Founding the Professorship and Laboratory....Pages 23-34
Creating the Cavendish Tradition....Pages 35-46
Building the Laboratory....Pages 47-60
The Early Atmosphere....Pages 61-79
Rayleigh....Pages 80-87
Systematising Teaching and Research....Pages 88-102
J. J. Thomson: Early Days....Pages 103-108
Building on the Foundations....Pages 109-125
Fruition....Pages 126-140
From Outside to Inside the Atom....Pages 141-151
Accommodation and Teaching....Pages 152-159
New Physics, and a New Professor....Pages 160-175
Rutherford’s Background....Pages 176-182
The Apotheosis of the Cavendish Laboratory....Pages 183-202
The Rutherford Era....Pages 203-212
Cloud Chambers....Pages 213-224
Engineers and Electricians....Pages 225-235
Russian and Australian Views....Pages 236-248
Individual Genius also Flourished....Pages 249-257
The Cavendish in Transition....Pages 258-268
Bragg....Pages 269-290
The Technicians’ Contribution....Pages 291-300
Physicists and Molecular Biology....Pages 301-319
Final Report....Pages 320-328
The Mond....Pages 329-338
‘One Good Laboratory Among Many’....Pages 339-357
Current Researches....Pages 358-367
New Instruments....Pages 368-380
A New Line....Pages 381-384
The Depths of Space....Pages 385-401
Finance and Administration....Pages 402-411
The New Cavendish....Pages 412-430
Pippard’s View....Pages 431-441
Back Matter....Pages 442-464