Physics and Our World - Hardcover

by Huang Kerson (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

This book reproduces the papers collected from the proceedings of a symposium organized in honor of Victor Weisskopf in 1974 at MIT. The papers merit attention because of their historic significance. Particle physics was at a crucial transition point at the emergence of the Standard Model owing to experiments that point to the existence of quarks. The contributors in this book include Hans Bethe, Julian Schwinger, Edward Purcell, T D Lee, Murray Gell-Mann, Ben Mottelson, Max Delbr ck and other renowned scientists. The book also contains a commentary by K Huang.