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xviii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Portrait R. Feyman -- List of contributors -- A memorial to P. A. M. Dirac B. N. Kursunoglu -- Preface B. N. Kursunoglu and E. P. Wigner -- Chronology -- Part I. Human Side: 1. Thinking of my darling Paul M. Dirac -- 2. Dirac in coral gables S. A. Kursunoglu -- 3. Recollections of Paul Dirac at Florida State University J. E. Lannutti -- 4. My association with Professor Dirac Harish-Chandra -- 5. What Paul Dirac meant in my life N. Kemmer -- 6. Dirac's way R. Peierls -- 7. An experimenter's view of P. A. M. Dirac A. D. Krisch -- 8. Dirac at the University of Miami H. K. Stanford -- 9. Remembering Paul Dirac E. P. Wigner -- Part II. More Scientific Ideas: 10. Another side to Paul Dirac R. H. Dalitz -- 11. Playing with equations, the Dirac way A. Pais -- 12. Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg - a partnership in science L. M. Brown and H. Rechenberg -- 13. Dirac's magnetic monopole and the fine structure constant W. J. Marciano and M. Goldhaber -- 14. Magnetic monopoles and the halos of galaxies F. Hoyle -- 15. The inadequacies of quantum field theory P. A. M. Dirac -- 16. Dirac and the foundation of quantum mechanics P. T. Matthews -- Part III. Influenced and Inspired by Association: 17. At the feet of Dirac J. C. Polkinghorne -- 18. Reminiscences of Paul Dirac N. Mott -- 19. From relativistic quantum theory to the human brain H. J. Lipkin -- 20. Dirac in 1962, weak and gravitational radiation interactions J. Weber -- 21. Schrḏinger's cat W. E. Lamb, Jr. -- 22. Dirac and finite field theories A. Salam -- 23. Dirac's influence on unified field theory B. N. Kursunoglu -- Index |
| Analysis |
Theoretical physics Dirac, P A M Biographies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984.
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Astrophysics -- Congresses.
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Mathematical physics -- Congresses.
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Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Congresses.
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Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Physics -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Biographies.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kurşunoğlu, Behram, 1922-
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Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995.
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| LC no. |
86033409 |
| ISBN |
0521340136 |
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