The Summer of 1953: A Watershed for Astrophysics
DOI: 10.1063/1.881407
Beginning in 1927 the University of Michigan’s summer school in physics became famous as the international forum for learning about the latest advances in modern physics. Within a decade of its inception perhaps half of the most renowned European physicists had turned up for its sessions—scientists like Fermi, Dirac, Pauli, Sommerfeld, Goudsmit, Uhlenbeck, Ehrenfest and the astrophysicists Robert Atkinson and E. A. Milne.
References
1. Shapley Collection, Harvard U. Archives, Cambridge, Mass.
2. Oral history interview conducted by S. Weart, Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.
More about the Authors
Owen Gingerich. Harvard University.
