Historical Essays by Paul Horowitz

Left to right: J. B. H. Kuper (left), R. Pound (center), and H. Torrey (Photo from “Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory,” M.I.T., 1946).

The following are essays on the history of Harvard Department of Physics written by Prof. Paul Horowitz. These essays appeared in various issues of the Harvard Physics Newsletter.

• Nicolaas Bloembergen: Invention of the Solid-State Maser (2026)
• P.W. Bridgman, Pioneer of High-Pressure Physics (2025)
• Theodore Lyman, Pioneer of Ultraviolet Vacuum Spectroscopy (2024)
• “As Immovable as a High Mountain”: Wallace Sabine and the Founding of Architectural Acoustics (2023)
• “Unprecedented Spectral Purity”: The Invention of the Hydrogen Maser (2022)
• Testing Einstein’s Prediction: The Pound–Rebka Experiment (2021)
• Radioastronomy’s First Spectral Line: “A Glimpse of the Handiwork of Creation” (2020)
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Lyman Laboratory, December 1945 (2019)