Physics and Our World: Reissue of the Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Victor F Weisskopf (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814434966)

As the proceedings of a symposium in honor of Victor Weisskopf at MIT, this volume contains papers by leaders of physics at the time, including M Delbr ck, M Gell-Mann, H Bethe, T D Lee, B R Mottelson, W K H Panofsky, E Purcell, J Schwinger, S M Ulam, and others. Some papers address problems in the philosophy of physics, and physics and society, that are timeless in nature. But the symposium had a historical significance, in that it took place at a historic juncture of particle physics -- the emergence of the Standard Model owing to experiments that point to the existence of quarks. Some of the papers reflect both the pre-quark and post-quark points of view. For these reasons, these proceedings merit reissue and reexamination.

Author: Kerson Huang
ISBN-10: 9814434965
ISBN-13: 9789814434966
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2013
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d