| Contents | 5 |
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| Preface | 7 |
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| The Whipple Museum and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge | 9 |
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| Scientific Travels in the Irish Countryside | 14 |
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| St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth | 14 |
| Galway | 18 |
| The Rosse Telescope | 23 |
| Geology | 26 |
| Note | 27 |
| References | 27 |
| Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier’s Bones to Higgs’s Boson | 28 |
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| The Seventeenth Century | 30 |
| The Scottish Enlightenment | 35 |
| The Nineteenth Century | 41 |
| The Twentieth Century | 47 |
| Other Places to Visit | 52 |
| Acknowledgment | 58 |
| References | 58 |
| Historical Sites of Physical Science in Copenhagen | 62 |
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| Copenhagen | 62 |
| Bredgade 62 (F4) | 62 |
| Ved Stranden 14 (E5) | 63 |
| The Royal Danish Academy, Dantes Plads (E5) | 63 |
| Klareboderne/Købmagergade (E5) | 64 |
| The Round Tower, Købmagergade 52A(E5) | 65 |
| Store Kannikestræde 16 (E5) | 68 |
| Vor Frue Kirke,Vor Frue Plads (E5) | 69 |
| Nørregade 21 (E5) | 69 |
| Studiestræde 6 (E5) | 71 |
| Ørstedparken, Nørre Voldgade (D5) | 72 |
| Rosenborg Castle, Øster Voldgade 4A(E4) | 73 |
| Øster Voldgade 3 (E4) | 73 |
| Geological Museum, Øster Voldgade 5–7 (E4) | 73 |
| Polyteknisk Læreanstalt, Sølvtorvet, Sølvgade 83 (E4) | 74 |
| Blegdamsvej 17 (E3) | 75 |
| Assistens Kirkegård, Kapelvej 2 (D4) | 76 |
| The Carlsberg Honorary Residence, Gamle Carlsbergvej,Valby (C6) | 76 |
| A Parisian Walk along the Landmarks of the Discovery of Radioactivity | 80 |
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| References | 87 |
| Physics in Berlin I:The Historical City Center | 88 |
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| References | 97 |
| II:Through the Western Part of the City: Charlottenburg | 98 |
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| Through Dahlem | 102 |
| Potsdam | 110 |
| References | 116 |
| Some Historical Points of Interest in Göttingen | 118 |
| References | 125 |
| Peripatetic Highlights in Bern | 127 |
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| Inroduction | 127 |
| A Junction in Space and Time | 127 |
| The Patent Office | 130 |
| Gymnasium Science | 131 |
| Einstein’s Old-Town Neighborhood | 132 |
| Bernese Metrology | 134 |
| The Naturforschende Gesellschaft | 136 |
| University Physics | 137 |
| Experimental Resurrection | 142 |
| Life in Länggasse | 145 |
| Acknowledgment | 148 |
| References | 148 |
| Vienna: A Random Walk in Science | 150 |
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| Vienna | 150 |
| Physics in Vienna | 151 |
| A Scientific Walking Tour in Vienna | 162 |
| Scientific Sites in Other Districts of Vienna | 173 |
| References | 177 |
| Budapest: A Random Walk in Science and Culture | 179 |
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| Budapest | 179 |
| I District | 180 |
| II District | 184 |
| III District | 187 |
| XII District | 188 |
| XI District | 192 |
| V District | 198 |
| VI District | 201 |
| VII District | 202 |
| VIII District | 203 |
| IX District | 207 |
| X District | 208 |
| IV District | 209 |
| XIII District | 211 |
| XIV District | 212 |
| XVI District | 214 |
| XVII District | 214 |
| XVIII District | 214 |
| XX District | 215 |
| XXI District | 215 |
| XXII District | 215 |
| Conclusions | 215 |
| Acknowledgments | 216 |
| References | 216 |
| Physics and New York City | 218 |
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| Introduction | 218 |
| Two Famous Serbs and an American from the Midwest | 219 |
| The Hall of Fame for Great Americans | 222 |
| Albert Einstein, Otto Stern, and Henry Goldman | 224 |
| Oppenheimer, Feynman, Schwinger, and Rabi | 227 |
| New York City High Schools | 229 |
| The New York Academy of Sciences | 230 |
| Universities and Colleges | 231 |
| Fordham University,Victor F. Hess, and the Washington Heights Subway | 231 |
| Cooper Union | 233 |
| City University of New York | 235 |
| New York University | 239 |
| Columbia University | 242 |
| Polytechnic University | 245 |
| The Manhattan Project | 246 |
| A Physics Stroll through Manhattan | 246 |
| Conclusion | 250 |
| References | 251 |
