IMPORTANT PHYSICISTS The purpose of this web page is to show the interrelationship between some selected physical scientists and between the scientistists and their institutions. The period covered is roughly from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. The selection of the scientists is based on their contribution to the atomic or molecular or crystalline structure of matter. 177 scientists have been selected.

Some scientists have been omitted by error and many have been omitted intentionally. The periods during world war one and world war two have been mostly omitted.

The link "SCI-LIST" is an alphabetical listing of the scientists and the institutions they attended. The link also lists the abbreviations of the institutions.

The "SCI-LIST" link should be opened first as it will give you the selected scientists and their related institutions. The other links, except the links "INFLUENC" and "TEACHERS", are institutions. Within each of the institutional links is a chronological listing of the selected scientists at that institution. The list of scientists is not complete and there is not a link for every institution. Some institutional links have been omitted because too few of the selected scientists attended them. Of the 146 institutions, there are links to 30 of them.

The content of the institutional links is niether a biography nor a description of their accomplishments. It is only of the institutions they attended and when.

The "INFLUENC" link shows one way the links can be used to further look at the influence the scientists and their institutions had on each other. The link gives two examples of a particular scientist and the other scientists that came in contact with him at the institutions the particular scientist attended.

The "TEACHERS" link shows the contact that six great physics teachers had with their students, post doctoral fellows and fellow faculty members. The teachers are:
Arnold J. W. Sommerfeld
Max Born
John Joseph Thomson
Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Ernest Rutherford
Niels Henrik David Bohr

All links were written in Microsoft Word.

Although a bibliography is inappropriate for this web page, there are four books which are of special interest to this topic.

"Quantum Physics in America, The Years Before 1935" by Katherine Russell Sopka, American Institute of Physics, 1988.

"Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction" by P. P. Ewald, The International Union of Crystallography, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1962. This contains many first hand accounts by important crystallographers.

"ALSOS" by Samuel A. Goudsmit, Oxford University Press, 1947. A good book about the german atomic scientists during world war two.

"HYDROGEN, THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT" by John S Rigden, Harvard University Press, 2002. This really is a history of the development of the atomic structure and quantum mechanics.

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