Research Catalog

Title

Symmetries and reflections : scientific essays of Eugene P. Wigner.

Author

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

Publication

• Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1967]
• ©1967

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Details

Description

viii, 280 pages illustrations, map, portrait; 24 cm

Subject

• Science
• Science
• sciences (philosophy)
• science (modern discipline)
• 33.00 physics: general
• Reflexion Physik
• Symmetrie
• Natuurkunde
• Physics
• Quantum theory
• Reflexion (Physik)

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes.

Contents

I. Symmetry and other physical problems. Invariance in physical theory ; Symmetry and conservation laws ; The role of invariance principles in natural philosophy ; Events, laws of nature, and invariance principles ; Relativistic invariance and quantum phenomena ; On the structure of solid bodies ; On the development of the compound nucleus model -- II. Nuclear energy. Theoretical physics in the metallurgical laboratory of Chicago ; The effects of radiation on solids ; Atomic energy ; Longer range view of nuclear energy -- III. Epistemology and quantum mechanics. The problem of measurement ; Remarks on the mind-body question ; Two kinds of reality ; The probability of the existence of a self-reproducing unit -- IV. Reflections. The limits of science ; The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences ; Twentieth birthday of the atomic age ; Recalls the ends -- while pondering the means ; Enrico Fermi ; John von Neumann ; City Hall speech -- Stockholm, 1963 ; Convocation address, University of Alberta ; The growth of science -- its promise and its dangers.

LCCN

67010104

OCLC

• ocm00519825
• 519825
• SCSB-100329

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library