Research Catalog

Title

Science at the American frontier : a biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace / by David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd.

Author

Cahan, David.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rudd, M. Eugene.

Description

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Science at the American Frontier is both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier. The authors trace Brace's first-class scientific education in Boston, Baltimore, and Berlin, and they follow his career as he founded and built a department of physics at the University of Nebraska and pursued a research program at that institution. In doing so, they show how Brace's career brought him into the vanguard of the American scientific community, and they illuminate the developmental process of departments of science at the newly founded land-grant colleges."--Jacket.

Subject

• Brace, D. B. 1859-1905
• Brace, D. B. 1859-1905
• Brace, De Witt Bristol 1859-1905
• Brace, DeWitt Bristol, 1859-1905
• Brace, De Witt Bristol
• Physicists > United States > Biography
• Physics
• Physics
• physics
• 33.01 history of physics
• Physicists
• Biografie
• Natuurkunde
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies (form)
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-200) and index.

Contents

From Prairie to University -- The Education of an American Physicist -- Building a Department: Phase One -- Building a Department: Phase Two -- Renewal -- Ether Drift -- Heritage -- List of Principal Apparatus Purchased between 1888 and 1891.

ISBN

• 0803215088
• 9780803215085

LCCN

99049720

OCLC

• ocm42476772
• 42476772
• SCSB-1124341

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library