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The history of physics in Uruguay has long been misunderstood by the country’s historians. This article proposes a new way of considering that past, researching the career of Walter Scott Hill at the Institute of Physics of the University of the Republic of Uruguay (Udelar). By doing so, not only can we fill a gap in the history of Uruguayan science, but we can also understand how important a role the laboratory had in the country’s physics and what ramifications this had. Uruguayan physics did not develop from a university chair or an institute or some scientific society; its embryo was the laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, part of the Institute of Physics at Udelar, even if its subsequent development did not apparently generate further fruit.
乌拉圭的物理学史长期以来一直被该国的历史学家所误解。本文提出了一种思考过去的新方法，研究了乌拉圭共和国大学(Udelar)物理研究所的Walter Scott Hill的职业生涯。通过这样做，我们不仅可以填补乌拉圭科学史上的空白，还可以了解实验室在这个国家的物理学中扮演了多么重要的角色，以及它产生了什么后果。乌拉圭物理学不是从一个大学主席、一个研究所或某个科学协会发展起来的;它的雏形是工程与测量学院的实验室，隶属于乌代拉尔物理研究所，尽管它后来的发展显然没有产生进一步的成果。
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Physics in Perspective seeks to bridge the gulf between physicists and non-physicists through historical and philosophical studies that typically display the unpredictable as well as the cross-disciplinary interplay of observation, experiment, and theory that has occurred over extended periods of time in academic, governmental, and industrial settings and in allied disciplines such as astrophysics, chemical physics, and geophysics. The journal also publishes first-person accounts by physicists of significant contributions they have made, biographical articles, book reviews, and guided tours of historical sites in cities throughout the world. It strives to make all articles understandable to a broad spectrum of readers – scientists, teachers, students, and the public at large. Bibliographic Data Phys. Perspect. 1 volume per year, 4 issues per volume approx. 500 pages per volume Format: 15.5 x 23.5cm ISSN 1422-6944 (print) ISSN 1422-6960 (electronic)
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