A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of by B. G. Sidharth (Ed.),B. G. Sidharth

By B. G. Sidharth (Ed.),B. G. Sidharth

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla technology Centre, Hyderabad, India, began a sequence of lectures via Nobel Laureates and different scientists of overseas renown, totally on Physics and Astronomy. the current assortment as a rule includes lectures on frontier subject matters. The transcript of every lecture is preceded through a brief biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in query. The lectures are geared toward a large non-specialist yet better trained audience.

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