The nation’s timekeeper: McGill and the Dominion Observatory
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences marks its 50th anniversary this year, but meteorological work at McGill began about 150 years ago inside a stone tower built by the Dominion of Canada...
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The more physics you have the less engineering you need. (Ernest Rutherford) Physics at McGill was born in 1891 when the tobacco manufacturer, William Macdonald, dedicated funding for a new Physics...
View ArticleGeorge Mercer Dawson – What’s in a name?
(By Ingrid Birker, Science Outreach Coordinator) The other day I was attending a meeting in the Dean of Science’s office, located on the second floor of Dawson Hall. I peered out, and the first thing I...
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