The Physical Tourist A Science Guide for the Traveler /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rigden, John S. (Editor), Stuewer, Roger H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Physics > History.; History of Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8933-8

Typical travel guides have sections on architecture, art, literature, music and cinema. Rarely are any science-related sites identified. For example, a current travel guide for Germany contains one tidbit on science: Einstein is identified as the most famous citizen of Ulm. By contrast, this travel...

Table of Contents:

• The Whipple Museum and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
• Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside
• Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier's Bones to Higg's Boson
• Historical Sites of Physical Science in Copenhagen
• A Parisian Walk along the Landmarks of the Discovery of Radioactivity
• Physics in Berlin
• Some Historical Points of Interest in Gt̲tingen
• Peripatetic Highlights in Bern
• Vienna: A Random Walk in Science
• Budapest: A Random Walk in Science and Culture
• Physics and New York City.