| AAPPS Bulletin
Vol.13 No.6 December 2003 |
Articles
Academic Genealogy of American Physicists (PDF,475KB)
Sooyoung Chang,Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
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In the early twentieth century, American physicists considered their education
incomplete without studying one or two years in Europe. The situation changed
in the nineteen thirties. Americans have dominated in receiving Nobel Prize in
Physics since fiftieth. As of year the 2002, the Nobel Prize for Physics were awarded
to 75 for U. S. A., 22 for Germany and 19 for Great Britain.
The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 with 59 members and increased
to 42,007 in 2002.
The influx of many capable European physicists moved to the United States in
the 1930’s helped continuous development of American physics.
Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Chicago, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Yale and Caltech
have played important roles in delivering productive researches and supplying Ph. D. physicists in the United States.
In 1914, only 23 Ph. D.’s in Physics graduated and increased to 548 in 1954. In 2000, the number increased to 1393.
In this paper, teacher-student relations for prominent American physicists are described. |
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