My Father's Watch
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Contents
History
Course
According to the book's preface, PM and DFH taught a course for those who would only take one course in the physical sciences,
Book as published
Reviews
Reviewed by Professor Manka of Sam Houston State U. June 1970, "the best we have received to date" according to the editor, WHG.
Use of text
Faculty from other colleges used MFW. Hans von Baeyer wrote to the publisher with a letter about how he would use MFW Fall 1970.
- Prentice Hall provided a list of college bookstores that ordered multiples of the text between 10/01/1969 and 2/28/1970
- Arizona (Tuscon campus), 20.
- Student bookstore at AZ (Tuscon campus), 36.
- Occidental Col. bookstore, CA, 150.
- Oglethorpe U. Bookshop, GA, 84.
- Cornell Campus Store, NY, 75.
- Triangle Book Shop (Cornell), NY, 50.
- Sam Houston State College, TX, 50.
Notes from archives
Abbreviations
- MFW
- My Father's Watch
- DFW
- Donald Frank Holcomb
- PM
- Philip Morrison
- WHG
- William H. Grimshaw, Physics Editor at Prentice Hall
