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A century of ideas : perspectives from leading scientists of the 20th century / edited by B.G. Sidharth.
- Title
- A century of ideas : perspectives from leading scientists of the 20th century / edited by B.G. Sidharth.
- Publication
- Dordrecht : Springer, c2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sidharth, B. G.
- Description
- x, 207 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Fundamental theories of physics ; v. 149
- Uniform Title
- Fundamental theories of physics ; v. 149.
- Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 149
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fifty years of cosmology / Fred Hoyle -- Science as an adventure / Hermann Bondi -- The early universe / William Fowler -- The long-term future of particle accelerators / Simon van der Meer -- Energy and evolution / George Porter -- The wonders of pulsars / Antony Hewish -- Is the future given? Changes in our description of nature / Ilya Prigogine -- Bubbles, foams and other fragile objects / P.G. de Gennes -- Beyond the standard model: will it be the theory of everything? / Yuval Ne'eman -- Living joyfully with complexity in chemistry and culture / Roald Hoffmann -- A confrontation with infinity / Gerard't Hooft -- The creative and unpredictable interaction of science and technology / Charles Townes -- The link between neutrino masses and proton decay in supersymmetric unification / Jogesh C. Pati -- The nature of discovery in physics / Douglas D. Osheroff -- Symmetry in the micro world -- a conversation with Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner / B.G. Sidharth.
- ISBN
- 9781402043598 (hbk.)
- 1402043597 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 225304533
- SCSB-13347190
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library