Kursunoglu

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Reminiscences about a Great Physicist
Herausgeber: Kursunoglu, Behram N.; Wigner, Eugene Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

In this memorial volume, twenty-four of Dirac's closest friends, colleagues and contemporaries remember him with affection. Dirac, who died in 1984, was unquestionably one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. The book describes his human side, with many anecdotes about the man with a reputation for silence. His immense influence on modern physics is surveyed in chapters written by eminent scientists. Dirac was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 at the age of thiry-one. His tremendous contributions to the field included his prediction of the magnetic moment and antiparticles as well as the spin of the electron. His formulations of the quantum field theory, statistics of particles and fields, his work on gravitational waves, and his prediction of magnetic monopoles stand as monuments to his originality and deep understanding of natural phenomena. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the development of quantum theory or in Paul Dirac.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521386883
• ISBN-10: 0521386888
• Artikelnr.: 21250238

Inhaltsangabe

Portrait R. Feyman
List of contributors
A memorial to P. A. M. Dirac B. N. Kursunoglu
Preface B. N. Kursunoglu and E. P. Wigner
Chronology
Part I. Human Side: 1. Thinking of my darling Paul M. Dirac
2. Dirac in coral gables S. A. Kursunoglu
3. Recollections of Paul Dirac at Florida State University J. E. Lannutti
4. My association with Professor Dirac Harish-Chandra
5. What Paul Dirac meant in my life N. Kemmer
6. Dirac's way R. Peierls
7. An experimenter's view of P. A. M. Dirac A. D. Krisch
8. Dirac at the University of Miami H. K. Stanford
9. Remembering Paul Dirac E. P. Wigner
Part II. More Scientific Ideas: 10. Another side to Paul Dirac R. H. Dalitz
11. Playing with equations, the Dirac way A. Pais
12. Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg - a partnership in science L. M. Brown and H. Rechenberg
13. Dirac's magnetic monopole and the fine structure constant W. J. Marciano and M. Goldhaber
14. Magnetic monopoles and the halos of galaxies F. Hoyle
15. The inadequacies of quantum field theory P. A. M. Dirac
16. Dirac and the foundation of quantum mechanics P. T. Matthews
Part III. Influenced and Inspired by Association: 17. At the feet of Dirac J. C. Polkinghorne
18. Reminiscences of Paul Dirac N. Mott
19. From relativistic quantum theory to the human brain H. J. Lipkin
20. Dirac in 1962, weak and gravitational radiation interactions J. Weber
21. Schrödinger's cat W. E. Lamb, Jr.
22. Dirac and finite field theories A. Salam
23. Dirac's influence on unified field theory B. N. Kursunoglu
Index.