University of Rochester
AIP Center for History of Physics/Neils Bohr Library & Archives Intern
American Institute of Physics
MJ Keller - Final Presentation.pdf
Abstract:
The Niels Bohr Library and Archives is host to physical and digital resources from the world's history of achievements in physics, optics, mathematics, astronomy, and related fields, and the Center for History of Physics offers connections to the physics community at large through outreach and writing. Through the lens of the development of atomic theory--one of the greatest, most unifying theories developed in modern history--this talk will overview work completed this summer. Methods covered range from Wikipedia editing to curriculum creation to non-fiction article writing, with their topics presented along with developments and discoveries in atomic theory that were underway at the same time.
I am an incoming junior at the University of Rochester, pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Physics and Astronomy and a Minor in Music. Originally, I'm from Tampa Bay, Florida, and I moved north to upstate New York specifically to pursue astrophysics. Now, I conduct research with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument studying galactic rotation curves, and I work in the Physics, Optics, and Astronomy Library at my university. I've always had a vested interest in information accessibility, from my work at a children's library to my work now in the POA, and I cannot wait to put my love of physics history and literature towards a good cause doing outreach.