Part 1 covers major probems of physics and astrophysics, part 2 the philosophy and history of science and part 3 deals with memorial essays on famous physicists.
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Enthält: Symposium on the development of the physicist's conception of nature in the twentieth century held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, 18-25 September 1972.
Readers of Freeman Dyson's previous books, Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, and Infinite in All Directions, have discovered for themselves what Dyson reveals here: that he was a writer long before he became a distinguished scientist. The aim of this new book, as Dyson …
These 35 essays by astrophysicist Dyson on the faces of science and its practitioners, and on the ethical dilemmas surrounding science and the human condition are grouped loosely into stories, things, institutions, politics, books, and people. The volume includes fascinating acc…
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam -- Igor Evgenjevich Tamm -- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov -- Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich -- Aleksandr L'vovich Mintz -- Niels Hendrik David Bohr -- Werner Karl Heisenbeg -- What Brought Hitler to Power? And Who? -- Lev…
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam -- Igor Evgenjevich Tamm -- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov -- Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich -- Aleksandr L'vovich Mintz -- Niels Hendrik David Bohr -- Werner Karl Heisenbeg -- What Brought Hitler to Power? And Who? -- Lev…
