Autobiography, ca. 1960.

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Autobiography, ca. 1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83088459

The autobiography discusses influences on Farwell, studies at Columbia University, the early years of the American Physical Society, restructuring courses at Columbia before and during World War I, physics instruction problems, authorship of physics text, original research in optics, travel, World War II, and comments on Michael Pupin and Lawrence A Wills.

12 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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