“Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier’s Bones to Higgs’s Boson”

John Henry

doi:10.1007/s00016-007-0348-0

“Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier’s Bones to Higgs’s Boson”

John Henry

School of Social and Political Science

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I provide a tour of Edinburgh focusing on famous contributors to the history of physics and related sciences, using them as a way to write about particular parts of Edinburgh. I proceed chronologically, from the seventeenth century to the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century and on to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the notable individuals I discuss are John Napier (1550–1617), James Gregory (1638–1675), George Sinclair (ca. 1625–1696), Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), Joseph Black (1728–1799), James Hutton (1726–1797), John James Waterston (1811–1883), William J. Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), David Brewster (1781–1868), Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901), James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900), Charles Glover Barkla (1877–1944), Max Born (1882–1970), Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965), Charles T.R. Wilson (1869–1959), and Peter Higgs (b. 1929).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Physical Tourist
Subtitle of host publication	A Science Guide for the Traveler
Editors	J. S. Rigden, Roger H. Stuewer
Publisher	Basel: Birkhauser Verlag
Pages	21-54
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Print)	978-3-7643-8932-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-007-0348-0
Publication status	Published - 2008

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Name	Physics in Perspective
Publisher	Springer Verlag
ISSN (Print)	1422-6944
ISSN (Electronic)	1422-6960

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History of Physics
Physics
Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
Scottish Enlightenment
Royal Society of Edinburgh

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