A History of Nevis, part 1: The early life of Alexander Hamilton

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Speaker: Doctor William Seligman, Columbia University
Part of Nevis Labs’ #ScienceOnHudson lecture series. Recorded Thu May 12, 2016.

From one tree to thousands, from the revolution of a nation to evolutions in science, from ghost dogs to ghostly particles: we’ll visit the story of how the Nevis estate started from a small part of a British land grant to a center of high-energy physics. We’ll follow the path that starts with Alexander Hamilton and his birth on Nevis Island, to his son James Hamilton’s purchase of the Nevis estate in 1835, to the donation of the estate to Columbia University in 1934, to the construction of what was then the highest-energy particle accelerator in the world.

There’ll be a look at the architectural features of the Hamilton House at Nevis, which influenced the design of other buildings on the Nevis estate, including the physics research centers built 110 years after the original mansion was constructed. We’ll also have an overview of the scientific research done at Nevis from the start of the cyclotron in 1950 to the present.

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