On Modern Physics
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter, New York; Orion, London
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York, US; London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: Discussione sulla fisica moderna
Number of pages: 108
Notes: The book is an English translation of an Italian translation of original talks in German, or of the French translation of the German original (one case, the Born lecture)...

The public lectures were given at three different Rencontres internationales de Genève in 1952, 1957 and 1958, as follows [chronological order]:

* Erwin Schrödinger, 1952, delivered in German, published in original German plus a French summary, as 'Unsere Vorstellung von der Materie', in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 7, L'Homme devant la science, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1952, pp. 31-54.
* Pierre Auger, 1952, delivered and published in French as 'Les méthodes et les limites de la connaissance scientifique.' at the same conference/same publication as Schrödinger's, pp.55-80.
* Max Born, 1957, delivered in German, published in French translation as 'Réflexions d’un homme de science européen' in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 12, L'Europe et le Monde d'Aujourd'hui, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1958, pp. 29-48; original German appeared as 'Europäische Betrachtungen eines Naturforschers', Universitas, 13/3, S.225-240, Stuttgart 1958
* Werner Heisenberg, 1958, delivered in German, published in original German plus a French summary, as 'Die Plancksche Entdeckung und die philosophischen' in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 13, L'Homme et l'atome, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1958, pp. 37-60; debate pp. 189-203.

The electronic versions of all Rencontres are publicly available as text pdfs (not facsimiles). See "Links" section. The electronic versions of all Rencontres are publicly available as text pdfs (not facsimiles). See "Links" section. See also the "Links" section for the OL reference to the Italian source edition.
Table of contents: label: W. Heisenberg
title: Plank's discovery and the philosophical problems of atomic physics; title: Discussion of the lecture of Werner Heisenberg; label: E. Schrödinger
title: Our image of matter; label: M. Born
title: Reflections of a European man of science; label: P. Auger
title: The methods and limits of scientific knowledge