The Renaissance of Physics

Former Library book- rare first edition

Author: Karl Darrow

Condition:  Very good

Publisher: The Macmillan Company, 1936

Contents:

1. Physics and the Physicist
2. Intimations of Electricity
3. Release of Electrons from Matter
4. Through Measuring to Knowing
5. Magnets and Moving Charges
6. The Atom Visible
7. Light in the Semblance of Waves
8. Mystery of Waves and Corpuscles
9. Structure of the Atom
10. Technique of Transmutation
11. Victory over the Elements
12. Unity of Nature

Karl Kelchner Darrow (November 26, 1891 – June 7, 1982) was an American physicist and secretary of the American Physical Society from 1941 to 1967. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago under Robert A. Millikan in 1917. Darrow spent his working career at Western Electric from 1917 and then Bell Laboratories from its founding in 1925 until his retirement in 1956. He wrote four books and over 200 technical articles, histories, and critical reviews for professional journals, many of them in the Bell System Technical Journal. Darrow was a nephew of the famed trial attorney Clarence Darrow.