The Oskar Klein memorial lectures, 1988-1999
By: editor Gösta Ekspong, Stockholm University, Sweden
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9789814571609
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Physics; Quantum theory; Physicists; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Oscar Klein / Inga Fischer-Hjalmars and Bertel Laurent; title: Symmetry and physics / Chen Ning Yang; title: From the Bethe-Hulthén hypothesis to the Yang-Baxter equation / Chen Ning Yang; title: Beyond the standard models / Steven Weinberg; title: Precision tests of quantum mechanics / Steven Weinberg; title: Quantum theory and five-dimensional relativity theory / Oskar Klein; title: The atomicity of electricity as a quantum theory law / Oskar Klein; title: On the field theory of charged particles / Oskar Klein; title: From my life of physics / Oskar Klein; title: Scientific bibliography of Oskar Klein; title: Theory of neutrinos from the sun / Hans A. Bethe; title: Supernova theory / Hans A. Bethe; title: The big bang and cosmic inflation / Alan H. Guth; title: Do the laws of physics allow us to create a new universe? / Alan H. Guth; title: The Klein-Nishina formula / Gösta Ekspong; title: On the scattering of radiation by free electrons according to Dirac's new relativistic quantum dynamics / O. Klein and Y. Nishina; title: The reflection of electrons at a potential jump according to Dirac's relativistic dynamics / Oskar Klein; title: Excerpts from some autobiographical notes / Oskar Klein; title: The weak interaction : its history and impact on physics / T.D. Lee; title: Electron orbits and superconductivity of carbon 60 / T.D. Lee; title: The power of duality : exact results in 4D SUSY field theory / N. Seiberg; title: String theory as a universal language / A.M. Polyakov; title: The cosmological tests / P.J.E. Peebles; title: Anti-de sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories / Edward Witten; title: Can there be physics without experiments? Challenges and pitfalls / Gerard 't Hooft.