Beyond the Crystal Maze
Year: 2015
Type: book-review
Abstract: Where, then, is that person who ignorantly sneers at the study of matter as a material and gross study?Where, again, is that man with gifts so God-like and mind so elevated that he can attack and solve its problem?" 1 -Henry Rowland Solid state physics did not exist when Henry Rowland, founding president of the American Physical Society, wrote the above lines in 1899. 2 Rowland instead referred to latenineteenth-century struggles to understand the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules.
Authors: Joseph D. Martin, Michel Janssen
Institutions: Michigan State University, University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2322097723