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Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2000

Volume

56

Number

2

Theme

A Century of Canadian Physics

Guest Editor

Erich Vogt - University of British Columbia

Cover description

This issue is a celebration of the personalities, the institutions, and the ideas that spanned a century of Canadian physics: 1900 - 2000.

Articles (Click on the titles to open PDFs in a new tab)

Foreword

• A Century of Canadian Physics
  • Erich Vogt

Letters

• Re: Nobel Laureates(November/December 1999 issue of Physics in Canada)
  • Hamish Johnston

• Re: Ease His Pain: Joseph Gray Or Arthur Compton (January/february 2000 Issue Of Physics In Canada)
  • Cyril E. Challice

Erratum

• On page 7, in the January / February issue of Physics in Canada

CAP News

• Calendar

Profiles

• Walter Kohn, 1923-
  • Erich Vogt

• Richard Edward Taylor, 1929 -
  • Erich Vogt

• John Tuzo Wilson, 1908-1993
  • R. Don Russell

• Arthur Leonard Schawlow, 1921 -1999
  • Boris Stoicheff

• Harry Lambert Welsh, 1910-1984
  • Boris Stoicheff

• David Keith C. MacDonald, 1920 -1963
  • H. Preston-Thomas

• Gerhard Herzberg, 1904 -1999
  • Erich Vogt, Francine M. Ford

• George Craig Laurence, 1905-1987
  • Erich Vogt

• John Stuart Foster, 1890 -1964
  • S. K. Tommy Mark

• Bruno Pontecorvo, 1914 -1993
  • Erich Vogt

• Lloyd George Elliott, 1919 -1970
  • Erich Vogt, Francine M. Ford

• Wilfred Bennett Lewis, 1908 -1987
  • Erich Vogt

• Gordon Merritt Shrum, 1896 -1985
  • Erich Vogt

• Robert Edward Bell, 1918 -1991
  • S.K. Tommy Mark

Feature Articles

• A Century of Canadian Physics- Much to Celebrate
  • Erich Vogt

• A Brief history of the Canadian Association of Physicists
  • Donald D. Betts

• The Evolution of CAP/ ACP Activities
  • Francine M. Ford

• Rutherford and his Legacy to Canada
  • John M. Robson

• The Life of Sir John Cunningham McLennan
  • Robert Craig Brown

• Rasetti à Laval
  • Jean le Tourneux

• The National Research council's impact on Canadian Physics
  • Paul A. Redhead

• Atomic Energy in Canada: Personal Recollections of the Wartime Years
  • Philip R. Wallace

• Nuclear Physics Activities at Chalk River
  • James S. Geiger, Tom K. Alexander

• Neutron and Other Stories from Chalk River
  • William J.L. Buyers

• Emergence of Physics Graduate Work in Canadian Universities 1945- 1960
  • Mel A. Preston, Helen E. Howard- Lock

Book Reviews

• Book Reviews