Millikan's School - A History of the California Institute of Technology

Written in honour of its centenary, this history of Caltech explores its contribution to science and technology by providing profiles of its most famous scientists, such as von Karman in aeronautics, Morgan in biology, Gutenberg in seismology, Noyes in physical chemistry and Epstein in physics.

About the author

Judith R. Goodstein, PhD, is University Archivist and faculty associate at Caltech. She has taught history at Cal State Dominguez Hills and UCLA, while building from scratch an archive and rare book collection about the history of science. She is married to Professor David Goodstein.

Summary

"Millikan's School presents an interesting and thoroughly reliable account of the astonishing change over a period of a few years of a small technical school in Pasadena, California, into one of the world's leading scientific institutions." -Linus Pauling

Product details

• Authors: Judith R. Goodstein, Goodstein Judith R.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393329988
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32998-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; History, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, Technology: general issues