PAGE LEIGH: (1884-1952)
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PAGE LEIGH: (1884-1952) American theoretical physicist, an advocate of the relativistic electromagnetism approach to the field of equations. Manuscript Document, unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p. (New Haven, Connecticut), 29th February 1950. Page responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled World Inquiry, with their manuscript questions at the head of the page, '1. Were your scientific ''debut'' easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living…..enable you to make yourself known in science? Or did you live solely through your work of laboratory? 3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Which do you consider as your masterpiece?'. Page provides his answers beneath, in full, '1. I had no difficulty in obtaining a position after receiving my doctor's degree, although at a very low salary. 2. Fortunately I had a small private income. Otherwise I would have found it difficult to bring up my three children. 3. I consider my most important work to be (a) The emission theory of electromagnetism, (b) The relativity of uniformly accelerated reference systems.' At the base of the page is a small printed oblong 12mo return address, evidently neatly clipped from the original envelope and neatly mounted to the page, signed ('L. Page') by Page to the upper edge. One small, neat split to the right edge of a fold, otherwise VG
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