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Let’s Make Public History!

• September 15, 2009

By Linda Richards, OSU History of Science Graduate Student The photo above is one of the first photographs of alpha tracks taken by physicist Patrick M.S Blackett in 1924. OSU History of Science Professor Mary Jo Nye wrote a fascinating biography called Blackett, Physics,War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2004). Her [...]