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Personalities in Physics

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IN his presidential address to the Physical Society delivered on January 24, Lord Rayleigh gave a highly interesting and historically valuable account of some of his personal recollections of a number of eminent scientific men of recent times and of the circumstances in which they carried out their work.

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McKIE, D. Personalities in Physics. Nature 137, 419–421 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137419a0

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