Epilogue: Forging New Relationships, 1870–1914
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1. David Cahan, “The Institutional Revolution in German Physics, 1865–1914,” Hist. Stud. Phys. Sci. (1985): 1–65 demonstrates that the resources poured into the physics institutes built at the end of the century was for experimental, not theoretical, research and teaching.
2. See Paul Forman, John Heilbron and Spencer Weart, “Physics circa 1900. Personnel, Funding and Productivity of the Academic Establishment,” Hist. Stud. Phys. Sci. 5 (1975).
3. See Cahan, “Institutional Revolution.” This was also true in Britain, see Graeme Gooday, “Precision measurement and the Genesis of physics teaching laboratories in Victorian Britain,” Brit. J. Hist. Sci. 23 (1990): 25–51.
4. Isobel Falconer, “J. J. Thomson and ‘Cavendish Physics’,” in The Development of the Laboratory, James, ed. 104–117, argues that Thomson abandoned precision experiments as head of the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1880s. However, he made no attempts to recruit students or convert them to his approach to experimental physics.
5. See Jungnickel and McCormmach, Intellectual Mastery vol. 2, chap. 15.