My Century of Physics
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I became an undergraduate at Dartmouth College in 1933. The freshman course in physics was given by G.F. Hull who with E.L. Nichols, the founder of the Physical Review, was the first, with P. Lebedev in Russia to measure the pressure of light. (The world would learn sometime later about the diabolical importance of the pressure of light in enabling the hydrogen bomb.) Hull was a Canadian who had studied physics in Germany and had deep affection for his hosts, and so he began my first physics course with an emotional denunciation of what was happening to Germany in 1933.
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