Ebook: A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century
- Tags: Physics general, Astronomy Astrophysics and Cosmology, Particle Acceleration and Detection Beam Physics, Quantum Field Theories String Theory, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
- Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics 149
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.
The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question.
The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.
The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question.
The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.
The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question.
The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Fifty Years of Cosmology....Pages 1-12
Science as an Adventure....Pages 13-18
The Early Universe....Pages 19-25
The Long-Term Future of Particle Accelerators....Pages 27-41
Energy and Evolution....Pages 43-53
The Wonders of Pulsars....Pages 55-64
Is the Future Given? Changes in Our Description of Nature....Pages 65-75
Bubbles, Foams and Other Fragile Objects....Pages 77-85
Beyond the Standard Model: Will it be the Theory of Everything?....Pages 87-100
Living Joyfully with Complexity in Chemistry and Culture....Pages 101-108
A Confrontation with Infinity....Pages 109-121
The Creative and Unpredictable Interaction of Science and Technology....Pages 123-137
The Link Between Neutrino Masses and Proton Decay in Supersymmetric Unification....Pages 139-174
The Nature of Discovery in Physics....Pages 175-203
Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner....Pages 205-207
Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.
The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question.
The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Fifty Years of Cosmology....Pages 1-12
Science as an Adventure....Pages 13-18
The Early Universe....Pages 19-25
The Long-Term Future of Particle Accelerators....Pages 27-41
Energy and Evolution....Pages 43-53
The Wonders of Pulsars....Pages 55-64
Is the Future Given? Changes in Our Description of Nature....Pages 65-75
Bubbles, Foams and Other Fragile Objects....Pages 77-85
Beyond the Standard Model: Will it be the Theory of Everything?....Pages 87-100
Living Joyfully with Complexity in Chemistry and Culture....Pages 101-108
A Confrontation with Infinity....Pages 109-121
The Creative and Unpredictable Interaction of Science and Technology....Pages 123-137
The Link Between Neutrino Masses and Proton Decay in Supersymmetric Unification....Pages 139-174
The Nature of Discovery in Physics....Pages 175-203
Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner....Pages 205-207
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