The physics of a lifetime: reflections on the problems and personalities of 20th century physics
2001; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 39; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.39-0364
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Fusion and Plasma Physics Studies
ResumoI.- What Problems of Physics and Astrophysics Seem Now to Be Especially Important and Interesting?.- What Problems of Physics and Astrophysics Seem Now to Be Especially Important and Interesting (Thirty Years Later, Already on the Verge of the 21st Century)?.- II.- How Does Science Develop? Remarks on The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.- Who Created the Theory of Relativity and How Was It Developed? A Review with a Preamble and a Commentary.- Does Astronomy Need 'New Physics'?.- Physical Laws and Extraterrestrial Civilizations.- Wide Scope and Up-to-Date Information as a Precondition of Successful Research.- Physics Stays Young. A Way of Answering the Questionnaire in Nauka i Zhizn' Magazine.- On Popular Science and More.- Notes on the Occasion My Jubilee.- A Scientific Autobiography - an Attempt.- III.- About Igor EvgenevichTamm.- A Piece of Advice Given by Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam.- On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Nikolai Dmitrievich Papaleksi.- About Lev Davidovich Landau.- To the Memory of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov.- About Aleksandr Lvovich Mints.- In Commemoration of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov.- A Story of Two Directors.- To the Memory of Ilya Mikhailovich Frank.- About Grigorii Samuilovich Landsberg.- To the Memory of Evgenii Konstantinovich Zavoiskii.- About Matvei Samsonovich Rabinovich.- Mstislav Vsevoldovich Keldysh.- About Albert Einstein.- In Memory of Niels Bohr.- About Richard Feynman - a Remarkable Physicist and a Wonderful Man.- John Bardeen and the Theory of Superconductivity.- On High-Energy Astrophysics (On the 80th Birthday of Jan Oort).- The Sakharov Phenomenon.- Notes on A. I. Solzhenitsyn, A. D. Sakharov, and the 'Crosswind'.- About the Author.
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