Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1919

Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introduction.
1: The Beginning of the Cavendish Traditions, 1871-1879.
1.1. Preparing the Way. 1.2. Physics Education at Cambridge during the 1870s. 1.3. Three Cavendish Traditions: Maxwell's Legacy as director of the Cavendish Laboratory. 1.4. Researchers and Researches.
2: Rayleigh's Directorship, 1880-1884.
2.1. The Election of Lord Rayleigh. 2.2. Organizational Changes. 2.3. Rayleigh's Determination of the Ohm. 2.4. Researchers and Researches. 2.5. Rayleigh and the Continuation of Maxwell's Guidelines for the Cavendish Laboratory.
3: J.J. Thomson's First Ten Years at the Cavendish, 1885-1894.
3.1. The Election of J.J. Thomson. 3.2. J.J. Thomson as a Researcher. 3.3. Consolidating the Organization of the Cavendish Laboratory. 3.4. Researchers and Researches. 3.5. Was there a "Cavendish School" in 1894?
4: The Emergence of the Cavendish School, 1895-1900.
4.1. The 1895 Regulation. 4.2. J.J. Thomson and the Newcomers. 4.3. Organization. 4.4. Researchers and Researches. 4.5. The Emergence of the Cavendish School.
5: J.J. Thomson's Leadership and the Development of the Cavendish School, 1901-1914.
5.1. J.J. Thomson's Research in the New Century. 5.2. J.J. Thomson's Leadership and the Cavendish School. 5.3. Organization. 5.4. Researchers and Researches. 5.5. The Decline of J.J. Thomson's Leadership.
6: The End of an Era, 1914-1919.
6.1. World War I and the Cavendish Laboratory. 6.2. The End of the Thomson Era.
References. Index.