On Modern Physics
By: This Collier Books edition is published by arrangement with Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Collier Books is a division of The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company.
Contributors: Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976.
Edition: First Collier Books Edition 1962
Publisher: Collier Books
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Translated from: ita
Translation of: Discussione sulla fisica moderna
Number of pages: 130
Copyright date: Copyright © 1961 by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York
Subjects: Physics; Science -- Philosophy
Description: See the book main page for a bibliographic description. 
See "Links" section for original sources.
The material bellow is specifically from the 1962 edition, as indicated in brackets.


Four of the world's greatest physicists (Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, Pierre Auger) discuss, in nontechnical language, the ways we see and think about the world in the age of nuclear physics. [from inside cover]


    * A solution in the nuclear era to problems raised by the ancient Greek philosophers
    * How modern science has made our concept of matter more uncertain than ever before
    * The dangerously outmoded thinking of both sides in the Cold War and what can be done! about it
    * The limits of scientific knowledge

These are among the subjects discussed here by three Nobel laureates and a leading authority on space exploration— scientists and philosophers who are able to speak directly and imaginatively both to their colleagues and to laymen. This short volume casts new light on some of the most important and least understood issues of our time. [back cover]
Notes: Originally published by Paolo Boringhieri Editore, Turin
English translation by M. Goodman and J. W. Binns
[from copyright page]
Table of contents: label: W. Heisenberg
title: Plank's discovery and the philosophical problems of atomic physics
pagenum: 9; title: Discussion of the lecture of Werner Heisenberg
pagenum: 29; label: E. Schrödinger
title: Our image of matter
pagenum: 45; label: M. Born
title: Reflections of a European man of science
pagenum: 67; label: P. Auger
title: The methods and limits of scientific knowledge
pagenum: 93