Wolf prize in physics
By: edited by Tsvi Piran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.; World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1158
ISBN-13: 9789813109858; 9789813141025
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Physics; Awards; Wolf Foundation Prizes
Description: "The Wolf Foundation began its activities in 1976, with an initial endowment donated by the Wolf family. Within a very short period of time after its initiation, the Wolf prize has become one of the major signs for recognition of scientific achievements and excellence. This volume is devoted to a selection of Wolf Prize laureates in Physics and each has included two respective major publications as well as a commentary written by the laureate describing his scientific career. Readers around the world are provided a unique opportunity to get a glimpse of how scientific processes work in physics, and to comprehend how these laureates have left an indelible imprint on scientific history. Contributors: Leo P Kadanoff; Michael E Fisher; Martin Perl; Peter B Hirsch; Albert J Libchaber; Joseph H Taylor, Jr.; Michael V Berry; Anthony J Leggett; Bertrand I Halperin; Peter W Higgs; François Englert; Daniel Kleppner; Albert Fert; Anton Zeilinger; John F Clauser; Harald Rose; Maximilian Haider; Jacob D Bekenstein; Juan Ignacio Cirac; Peter Zoller"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: MICHAEL E. FISHER: Correlation functions and the critical region of simple fluids (1964), Fluid coexistence close to criticality: scaling algorithms for precise simulation (2013); title: LEO P. KADANOFF: Scaling laws for Ising models near T[c] (1966), Slippery wave functions (2013); title: MARTIN M. PERL: Evidence for anomalous lepton production in e[+] - e[-] annihilation (1975), Large bulk matter search for fractional charge particles (2002); title: PETER B. HIRSH: Direct observations of the arrangement and motion of dislocations in aluminum (1956), A kinematical theory of diffraction contrast of electron microscope images of dislocations and other defects (1959); title: ALBERT J. LIBCHABER: Period doubling cascade in mercury: a quantitative measurement (1982), Transitions to turbulence in helium gas (1987); title: JOESPH H. TAYLOR JR.: Further experimental tests of relativistic gravity using the binary pulsar PSY 1913[+] 16 (1989), Binary pulsars and relativistic gravity (1994); title: MICHAEL V. BERRY: Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes (1984), Uniform asymptotic smoothing of Stoke's discontinuities (1989); title: ANTHONY J. LEGGETT: Quantum mechanics versus macroscopic realism: is the flux there when nobody looks? (1985), Dynamics of the [3]He A-B phase boundary; title: BERTRAND I. HALPERIN: Theory of two-dimensional melting (1978), Statistics of quasiparticles and the hierarchy of fractional quantized hall states (1984); title: FRANCOIS ENGLERT: Broken symmetry and the mass of gauge vector mesons (1964), Spontaneous compactification of eleven dimensional supergravity (1982); title: PETER W. HIGGS: Broken symmetries and the masses of gauge bosons (1964), Spontaneous symmetry breakdown without massless Bosons (1966); title: DANIEL KLEPPNER: Inhibited spontaneous emission (1981), Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic hydrogen (1998); title: ALBERT FERT: Electric resistivity of ferromagnetic nickel and iron based alloys (1976), Giant magnetoresistance of (001) Fe/(001) Cr magnetic superlattices (1988); title: JOHN F. CLAUSER: Bell's Theorem: experimental tests and implications (1978), Experimental consequences of objective local theories (1974); title: ANTON ZEILINGER: Experimental test of quantum nonlocality in three- photon (2000), Wave-particle duality of C[60] molecules; title: MAXAMILIAN HAIDER: Electron microscopy image enhanced (1998), Present and future hexapole aberration correctors for high-resolution electron microscopy (2008); title: HERALD ROSE: Outline of a spherically corrected semiaplanatic medium- voltage transmission electron microscope (1990), Nonstandard imaging methods in electron microscopy (1997); title: JACOB D. BEKENSTEIN: Black holes and entropy (1973), Relativistic gravitation theory for the modified Newtonian dynamics paradigm; title: JUAN IGNACIO CIRAC: Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics (2001), Quantum state transfer and entanglement distribution among distant nodes in a quantum network (1997); title: PETER ZOLLER: Quantum computations with cold trapped ions(1995), Cold bosonic atoms in optical lattices (1998).