History of Physics Newsletter No. 17

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Contents		page
Editorial		3
Committee and Contacts	2004	4
Chairman's Report	2003	5
Chairman's Report	2004	7
New Committee members	2004	9
Obituary	Bernard Spurgin (only in the paper newsletter) by Stuart Leadstone	10
Book Review	Ernest Walton: an Irish Scientist Vincent McBriety	18
Past meetings
11^th Oct 2003	Discoveries, Theories and Natural Philosophers Formulating a theory: J J Thomson and Ernest Rutherford's collaboration on X-ray ionisation.by Isobel Falconer	17
27^th Nov 2003	The Hospital Physicists Association 60 years of Medical Physics seen through the eyes of one who went through it. by Sidney Osborn	22
17^th Sept 2004	EPS History of Science Group, Paris	16
Future meetings	Anticipating Einstein's Annus Mirablis by Stuart Leadstone	42
	Hamilton year - 2005	44
	EPS Symposium and 3^rd Hellenic Conference	45