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A Century of Ideas : Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel ...

Buchi neri nel mio bagno di schiuma : L’enigma di Einstein = Black holes in my bubble bath : Einstein's riddle

Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...

Fading Foundations

This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if ...

Foundations of Quantum Theory

This book studies the foundations of quantum theory through its relationship to classical physics. This idea goes back to ...

Il cielo sopra Roma : I luoghi dell’astronomia = The sky above Rome: The places of astronomy

Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...

Information—Consciousness—Reality

This book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. ...

La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science

An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...

Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

This book documenting the extraordinary life of an aspiring woman scientist whose life was filled with adversity. Surviving ...

Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN : With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn

This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in ...

Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry From Otto Stern's Pioneering Exploits to Present-Day Feats

This book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, ...

Obsessed by a Dream The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators

This biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet ...

Open Skies The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy

This book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations ...

Optics in Our Time

This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, ...

Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace : Pief Remembers

"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional ...

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy

Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich’s ...

The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

The book presents examples of models that are classical in essence, but can be analysed by the use of quantum techniques, ...

The Challenge of Chance : A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities

This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas ...

The Moon that Wasn’t : The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite

This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...

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