ABSTRACT

Demonstrating the strength of tradition in Ireland, Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision is a collection of essays on leading figures from the history of physics in Ireland. It includes physicists born outside of Ireland who carried out significant work in Ireland as well as those who had strong Irish roots but carried out their work outsid

chapter |8 pages

John Sealy Edward Townsend

chapter |10 pages

John A McClelland

chapter |12 pages

Erwin Schro¨dinger

chapter |10 pages

Cornelius Lanczos

chapter |12 pages

John Synge

chapter |8 pages

John Desmond Bernal

chapter |10 pages

Ernest Walton

chapter |10 pages

Walter Heitler

chapter |8 pages

Sir William McCrea

chapter |6 pages

Cormac O ´ Ceallaigh

chapter |11 pages

David Bates

chapter |9 pages

John Stewart Bell

chapter |11 pages

Lochlainn O ´ Raifeartaigh