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1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Growing up in the Manse: 1915 to 1931 -- College Days: 1931 to 1937 -- Starting to Earn a Living: 1937 to 1940 -- The University of Chicago: 1939 to 1942 -- Wartime Service: 1942 to 1945 -- The University of Manitoba: 1945-46 -- Wesleyan University: 1946 to 1951 -- McMaster University: 1951 to 1965 -- The University of Manitoba: 1965 to 1970 -- Laval University: 1970-71 -- The University of Winnipeg: 1971 to 1981 -- In Retirement: 1981 to 1999 -- Seven Decades of Change -- Curriculum Vitae: Henry Edmison Duckworth -- Index |
| Summary |
In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981) and chancellor of the University of Manitoba. An accomplished physicist, he wrote the first definitive text in English on mass spectroscopy, discovered the last stable isotope (platinum), and helped create important programs at universities and at the National Research Council. He also served on numerous councils for scientific and university organizations, and rubbed shoulders with Nobel Prize winners at international conferences. With humour and modesty, Henry Duckworth recalls trends, changes, and crises he witnessed throughout his long university career. He offers his observations, his opinions, his "version of the facts," providing a special insight into critical years in Canada's university education history, as well as his own specialty, atomic research |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Duckworth, H. E. (Henry Edmison), 1915-
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Duckworth, H. E. (Henry Edmison), 1915- fast |
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University of Winnipeg -- Presidents -- Biography
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University of Winnipeg fast |
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Physicists -- Canada -- Biography
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College teachers -- Canada -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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College teachers
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Physicists
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Presidents
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Canada
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0887556701 |
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9780887556708 |
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9780887553523 |
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0887553524 |
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