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"Some Early Synchrotron Radiation History"
Preface
Synchrotron radiation has existed, probably, since the very early universe, but humans first produced it only in the last 75 years. Cornell Professor Paul Hartman (1913-2005), was a pioneer of the field who made MANY contributions to the development of CHESS. At the 1988 CHESS User Meeting Paul gave a talk on the early development of synchrotron radiation and first experiments done with it, performed here at Cornell.
Paul was an outstanding teacher and experimenter so it is fitting the Hartman Prize be given (on alternate years by Cornell departments of Physics and Applied & Engineering Physics) to recognize outstanding work in Experimental Physics by an undergraduate. The 1988 talk, reproduced here, illustrates the unique style of much of Paul's historic writing. Other documents are cited in the article linked to above, and Paul also wrote "A Memoir on The Physical Review" (available from American Institute of Physics), "The Cornell Physics Department: Recollections and a History of Sorts", and a detailed account of the Cornell Materials Science Center, "MSC decade and a half", among other articles.
See CHESS News Magazine 2005 article here
