TitleA Century of Ideas : Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century
Author(s)Sidharth, B. G
PublicationDordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2008.
DescriptionXII, 208 p : online resource
Abstract NoteShortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry. The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question. The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience
ISBN,Price9781402043604
Keyword(s)1. ASTRONOMY 2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology 3. ASTROPHYSICS 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics 7. Particle acceleration 8. Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics 9. PHYSICS 10. Physics, general 11. Quantum Field Theories, String Theory 12. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 13. STRING THEORY
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