Gifford Scott adjusting the experimental equipment
Abstract/Description: | Gifford Scott adjusting the experimental equipment he and two fellow researchers are using to study an extremely small and mysterious twisting force they recently discovered. The phenomenon, reported in a recent issue of The Physical Review, a publication of The American Physical Society, occurs when a warm rod is suspended by a thread in a vertical chamber (center of photo) which is filled with a rarefied cool gas. When a very weak magnetic field is applied parallel to the rod, a slight torque or twisting force results which twists the rod. The experimental equipment is located at the Kettering Magnetics Laboratory, at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan |
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Subject(s): | Profile portraits Equipment and supplies Experiment--physics Electromagnetism Rochester (Mich.) Scott, Gifford G. |
Credit Line: | AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection |
Catalog ID: | Scott Gifford F1 |
Title: | Gifford Scott adjusting the experimental equipment. | |
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Type of Resource: | still image | |
Extent: | 3 photographic prints (black and white; 9.5 x 7.5 inches) | |
Abstract/Description: | Gifford Scott adjusting the experimental equipment he and two fellow researchers are using to study an extremely small and mysterious twisting force they recently discovered. The phenomenon, reported in a recent issue of The Physical Review, a publication of The American Physical Society, occurs when a warm rod is suspended by a thread in a vertical chamber (center of photo) which is filled with a rarefied cool gas. When a very weak magnetic field is applied parallel to the rod, a slight torque or twisting force results which twists the rod. The experimental equipment is located at the Kettering Magnetics Laboratory, at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan | |
Identifier(s): | Scott Gifford F1 (Catalog ID) | |
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Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection |
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Profile portraits Equipment and supplies Experiment--physics Electromagnetism Rochester (Mich.) Scott, Gifford G. |
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Held by: | Niels Bohr Library & Archives | |
Related Title: | Physics Today Collection. | |
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