Department History
Written by Albert A. Bartlett and Jack J. Kraushaar
In recounting our early history, Bartlett and Kraushaar profile department events against the backdrop of the larger world. From a 1920 snowstorm that claimed a professor’s life to the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, A History of the Department celebrates the lives and work of men and women bound by their combined love of physics and of Colorado.
In this revised and enlarged second edition:
• Expanded to 570 pages from 400
• New appendices and index
• More photographs
• Updated list of faculty and PhDs granted
• Chapter on the 2001 Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded to Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman
• More information on the Department’s first professor, William J. Waggener
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