The Physical Tourist A Science Guide for the Traveler /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rigden, John S. (Editor), Stuewer, Roger H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Typical travel guides have sections on architecture, art, literature, music and cinema. Rarely are any science-related sites identified. For example, a current travel guide for Germany contains one tidbit on science: Einstein is identified as the most famous citizen of Ulm. By contrast, this travel...

Table of Contents:

• United Kingdom
• The Whipple Museum and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
• Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside
• Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier’s Bones to Higgs’s Boson
• Denmark
• Historical Sites of Physical Science in Copenhagen
• France
• A Parisian Walk along the Landmarks of the Discovery of Radioactivity
• Germany
• Physics in Berlin I: The Historical City Center
• II: Through the Western Part of the City: Charlottenburg
• Some Historical Points of Interest in Göttingen
• Switzerland
• Peripatetic Highlights in Bern
• Austria
• Vienna: A Random Walk in Science
• Hungary
• Budapest: A Random Walk in Science and Culture
• United States
• Physics and New York City.