Nishina Memorial Lectures

Creators of Modern Physics
Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-4-431-99843-3
Verlag: Springer Verlag, Japan

Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

This volume is a collection of Nishina Memorial Lectures delivered by distinguished physicists during the past 50 years at the invitation of the Nishina Memorial Foundation. The Lectures commemorate Yoshio Nishina, the father of modern physics in Japan. Listen to the voice of W. Heisenberg: in the right column you can download the first minutes of his lecture "Abstraction in Modern Science" recorded in 1967! You can read the remainder of this lecture and all other lectures online via the link under "E-content". It is hoped that this volume will help young readers to grasp and enjoy the progress of modern physics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abstraction in Modern Science.- Yoshio Nishina, the Pioneer of Modern Physics in Japan.- Tomonaga Sin-Itiro: A Memorial – Two Shakers of Physics.- The Discovery of the Parity Violation in Weak Interactions and Its Recent Developments.- Origins of Life.- The Computing Machines in the Future.- Niels Bohr and the Development of Concepts in Nuclear Physics.- From X-Ray to Electron Spectroscopy.- Theoretical Paradigms for the Sciences of Complexity.- Some Ideas on the Aesthetics of Science.- Particle Physics and Cosmology: New Aspects of an Old Relationship.- The Experimental Discovery of CP Violation.- The Nanometer Age: Challenge and Change.- From Rice to Snow.- SCIENCE—A Round Peg in a Square World.- Are We Really Made of Quarks?.- Very Elementary Particle Physics.- The Klein-Nishina Formula&Quantum Electrodynamics.