By HUANG KERSON,Kerson Huang
As the lawsuits of a symposium in honor of Victor Weisskopf at MIT, this quantity comprises papers through leaders of physics on the time, together with M Delbrück, M Gell-Mann, H Bethe, T D Lee, B R Mottelson, W ok H Panofsky, E Purcell, J Schwinger, S M Ulam, and others. a few papers deal with difficulties within the philosophy of physics, and physics and society, which are undying in nature. however the symposium had a ancient value, in that it happened at a ancient juncture of particle physics — the emergence of the normal version because of experiments that time to the life of quarks. many of the papers mirror either the pre-quark and post-quark issues of view. For those purposes, those lawsuits advantage reissue and reexamination.
Contents:
- Introductory comments (James Killian)
- The strength challenge (Hans Bethe)
- Model-Free perspectives of Deep Inelastic Scattering (Julian Schwinger)
- Life at Low Reynolds quantity (E M Purcell)
- A attainable New kind of subject at excessive Density (T D Lee)
- The global as Quarks, Leptons and Bosons (Murray Gell-Mann)
- What Angular Momentum Can Do to the Nucleus (Ben R Mottelson)
- Physics for Mathematicians (S M Ulam)
- How Aristotle came upon DNA (Max Delbrück)
- Is Negotiated hands keep an eye on attainable? (W ok H Panofsky)
- The 3rd tradition (David Hawkins)
Readership: lecturers, graduate scholars and folks attracted to particle and nuclear physics.
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