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ATLANTA, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that Dr. Klaus von Klitzing, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will visit the campus on April 12th and 13th as part of the Honeywell-Nobel Initiative. Georgia Tech is one of 11 universities worldwide selected to participate in this groundbreaking educational program.
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Physics education refers both to the methods currently used to teach physics, and to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method, together with laboratory exercises aimed at verifying concepts taught in the lectures.
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Their success in this area helped bolster the argument that physics, like chemistry, could produce practical and, hence, economically valuable results. Partly in recognition of that fact, industrial research laboratories hired more physicists in the 1920s. Moreover, the funding for physical research rose considerably in both state and private universities. During the 1920s about 650 Americans received doctorates in physics; a number of them received postdoctoral fellowships from the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and from the National Research Council. After studying with the leading physicists in the United States and Europe, where the revolution in quantum mechanics was proceeding apace, many of these young scientists were well prepared for the pursuit of theoretical research.
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