Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weiseskopf by the International Community of Physicists
Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 547 g
ISBN: 978-1-56396-386-5
Verlag: American Inst. of Physics
This collection of essays by scientists from around the world honors Victor Frederick Weisskopf, one of the true luminaries of twentieth- century physics. Among the many breakthroughs his research has yielded have been the theory of the widths of energy levels of the electron, the "Clouded Crystal Ball" model of nuclear structure, and the "MIT Bag" model of hadronic matter. For his contributions to physics, Dr. Weisskopf has been awarded the Max Planck Medal, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Medal, and most recently, the Karl Taylor Compton Award. The essays in this book, by some of the world's leading physicists, including seven nobel prize winners, address topics ranging from Weisskopf's contributions to theoretical physics to more intimate views of his role as teacher, friend, and humanist. Contributors include: Hans A. Bethe; Hendrick B.G. Casimir; Georges Charpak; Sidney D. Drell; Evgenii L. Feinberg; Herman Feshbach; Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall; Murray Gell-Mann; Kurt Gottfried; J. David Jackson; Maurice Jacob; Francis E. Low; Ove Nathan; Norman F. Ramsey; Walter Thirring; and Charles H. Townes. For all his accomplishments, Victor Weisskopf remains a contemplative and unpretentious man. Throughout the world's scientific community he is known simply as Viki. The man and his work are revealed here by the collaborators, colleagues, and friends who know him best.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
Weitere Infos & Material
Part I: Weisskopf's Time Line; Chronology; Select Publications; Honors and Awards; Presidential Positions and Memberships.- Part II: A Man of Insight and His Journey into Depths: Reflections on a Polymathic Mind; The Poweer of Insight; Achievements in Physics; Weisskopf on Einstien and Bohr; The "Copenhagen Faust"; The MIT and the CERN; Viki: Friend, Colleague, and Teacher, Weisskopf: A Musician; Weisskopf, Science, World.- Part III: Words of Wisdom: Memorable Sayings, Opinions and Thoughts of V.F. Weisskopf.- Part IV: Weisskopf and the International Community of Physicists; Life and Science with Viki (Hans A. Bethe); Van der Waal's Forces and Zeropoint Energy (Hendrick B.G. Casimir); Victor Weisskopf: Director, Teacher, Wise Brother (Georges Charpak); Viki: Scientist, Humanist, Accompanist, and Friend (Sidney D. Drell); International Community in Science (Evgenii L. Feinberg); Viki (Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall); The Garden of Live Flowers (Murray Gell-Mann); Weisskopf Unmasked (Kurt Gottfried); The Nature of Intrinsic Magnetic Dipole Moments (J. David Jackson); Physical Societies and Physical Communities (Maurice Jacob); A Resonance Parametrization in One and Two-Channel S-Wave
