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

Kerson Huang editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Published:24th Dec '13

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

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 Delbrück, 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.

ISBN: 9789814434966

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188 pages

Revised ed.