APS and the Wider World
DOI: 10.1063/1.882610
Early America was not a fertile land for physics. Benjamin Franklin had been virtually alone in practicing physics in colonial times, and for nearly a century after him the seeds of physics hardly sprouted.
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More about the Authors
Harry Lustig. University of New Mexico.
