George Washington University. Dept. of Physics

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The Physics Department is a part of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Physics, although not always called physics, was taught at Columbian College during the 1820s. During the freshman and sophomore years, studies included English, Latin, and Greek; geography; arithmetic and algebra; history and antiquities; exercises in reading, speaking and composition; elements of chronology; rhetoric and logic; logarithms, geometry, trigonometry and mensuration; surveying, navigation, conic sections and Euclid's Elements. In his junior and senior years, the student took natural philosophy, astronomy, chemistry, fluxions, natural history, history of civil society, natural religion, Revelation, natural and political law, metaphysics, moral philosophy and analogy of religion to nature.

From the description of Physics Department records, 1935-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 752286553

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associatedWith Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. person
associatedWith Gamow, George, 1904-1968. person
associatedWith George Washington University. corporateBody
associatedWith Niels Bohr Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Teller, Edward, 1908-2003. person
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Washington (D.C.)
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Nuclear physics
Physics
Physics
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Active 1934

Active 1994

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