Correspondence concerning Dr. William Duane 1954-1970

Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976.

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Webster was professor of physics at Stanford University, 1920-1954, and emeritus professor, 1954-1976. From the description of David Locke Webster correspondence concerning Dr. William Duane, 1954-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703840593 David Locke Webster, professor of physics (1920-1954; emeritus, 1954-1977) and chairman of the Physics Department at Stanford (1920-1942), was born in Boston, November 6, 1888. He received his B.A. (1910) and Ph.D (1913) from Harvard U...

Duane, William

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Harvard University. Dept. of Physics

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The study of physics has been part of the Harvard College curriculum since 1642, when the text was by Aristotle and physics was found in a branch of the humanities called "natural philosophy." However, development came quickly, and the 17th century saw Harvard's curriculum embrace the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, and Descartes through the selection of a new text, Charles Morton's Compendium Physicae and through the gift to Harvard of its first piece of physics appara...

Wheelwright, George W., III.

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