Astronomy and the Harvard Observatory -- Henry Rowland and electricity -- J. Willard Gibbs and the origins of physical chemistry -- A.A. Michelson and the ether -- R.A. Millikan and the maturity of American science -- The growth of American astronomy -- Irving Langmuir and the general electric laboratories-- Linus Pauling and American quantum chemistry -- Arthur Compton and "Compton scattering" -- Davisson and Germer and quantum physics -- E.O. Lawrence and nuclear research -- Carl Anderson and antimatter -- Hans Bethe and energy in the sun -- The Manhattan Project: witness to the atomic age -- The myth of symmetry: Yang and Lee -- The emergence of solid-state physics -- Murray Gell-Mann and more particles: forces within the nucleus -- Richard Feynman and quantum electrodynamics -- Glashow, Weinberg, and the search for a unified field theory -- Beyond the cut.
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