Physics And Our World: Reissue Of The Proceedings Of A Symposium In Honor Of Victor F Weisskopf

This book reproduces the papers collected from the proceedings of a symposium organized in honor of Victor Weisskopf in 1974 at MIT. The papers merit attention because of their historic significance. Particle physics was at a crucial transition point at the emergence of the Standard Model owing to experiments that point to the existence of quarks. The contributors in this book include Hans Bethe, Julian Schwinger, Edward Purcell, T D Lee, Murray Gell-Mann, Ben Mottelson, Max Delbr ck and other renowned scientists. The book also contains a commentary by K Huang.

List of contents

The Energy Problem (H Bethe); Model-free Views of Deep Inelastic Scattering (J Schwinger); Life at Low Reynolds Number (E M Purcell); A Possible New Form of Matter at High Densities (T D Lee); The World as Quarks, Leptons and Bosons (M Gell-Mann); What Angular Momentum Can Do to the Nucleus (B R Mottelson); How Aristotle Discovered DNA (M Delbruck); Is Negotiated Arms Control Feasible? (W K H Panofsky); The Third Culture (D Hawkins); Physics for Mathematicians (S M Ulam).

Product details

• Authors: Kerson Huang
• Assisted by: Kerson Huang (Editor), Huang Kerson (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2013
• EAN: 9789814434966
• ISBN: 978-981-4434-96-6
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; Particle & high-energy physics, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle