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WHEN the Société Française de Physique organised its international congress on physics, at the Paris Exhibition in 1900, it was the wish of several members of the commission appointed for that purpose, notably of their distinguished president, M. A. Cornu, whose death we have since had occasion to deplore, that a volume should be prepared which might survive the reunion which gave it origin, and form a suitable record of the same. This happy thought led to the request that a number of investigators should give accounts of their life works, showing the connections with the results obtained by previous investigations, and indicating probable advances in the future. These investigators were asked to forget, for the moment, the multitude of interesting details involved in their researches, and to treat their respective subjects from a general point of view. As a consequence, we have before us a series of memoirs on important branches of physics, each written by a recognised authority, dealing with important and far-reaching advances in physical science. The value of these memoirs is greatly enhanced by full references to original publications.
Rapports préséntas au Congrès international de Physique réuni a Paris en 1900.
Edited by Ch. Ed. Guillaume L. Poincaré. 4 vols. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900.)
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E., E. Rapports préséntés au Congrès international de Physique réuni a Paris en 1900. Nature 67, 556 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067556a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/067556a0