Millikan's School Judith R. Goodstein

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Millikan's School presents an interesting and thoroughly reliable account of the astonishing change over a period of a few years of a small technical school in Pasadena, California, into one of the world's leading scientific institutions. -Linus Pauling

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Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith R. Goodstein

Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famous scientists, such as von Karman in aeronautics, Morgan in biology, Gutenberg in seismology, Noyes in physical chemistry and Epstein in physics.

About Judith R. Goodstein

Judith R. Goodstein, PhD, is University Archivist and faculty associate at Caltech. She has taught history at Cal State Dominguez Hills and UCLA, while building from scratch an archive and rare book collection about the history of science. She is married to Professor David Goodstein.

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NLS9780393329988

ISBN 13

9780393329988

ISBN 10

0393329984

Title

Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith R. Goodstein

Author

Judith R. Goodstein

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New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

2007-11-09

Number of pages

352

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