Autor: Alwyn van der Merwe

“Thermophysics poses one of the most exciting questions in theoretical physics: how can one reconcile the irreversibility of natural processes with the reversible mechanics governing the elemen …

The forty papers collected here honor one of the great scientists of our time–John Archibald Wheeler. In this volume are gathered the six issues of the journal Foundations of Physics (February throu …

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Without listing his works, all of which are highly notable both for the originality of the methods utilized as well as for the importance of the results achieved, we limit ourselves to the following: …

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0 e The selected popular writings contain articles he wrote on technical topics for such journals as The American Journal of Physics, Science, and Nature, as well as reflections on education, UFO’s, …

E.U. Condon’s major contributions were in atomic and molecular physics and spectroscopy; his book with G.H. Shortley on The Theory of Atomic Spectra dominated the field of spectroscopy for half a cen …

From September 24 through 30, 1992 the Workshop on "Waves and Parti- cles in Light and Matter" was held in the Italian city of Trani in celebration of the centenary of Louis de Broglie’s bi …

Simply to say that this is a collection of essays in honor of the late Wolfgang Yourgrau (1908-1979) is to explain, at least for-the obviously many-"insiders, " the unusually wide-ranging t …

Although the debate about the true nature of the quantum behavior of atomic systems has never ceased, there are two periods during which it has been particularly intense: the years that saw the found …

LOUIS DE BROGLIE AND THE SINGLE QUANTUM PARTICLE By A. O. Barut We have abundant evidence and testimony that Louis de Broglie deeply cared about the foundations, the meaning, and our understanding of …

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Theoretical physicists allover the world are acquainted with Lande’s celebrated computation of the g factor or splitting factor or, more precisely, the magne- togyric factor. The so-called anomalous …

Due to its extraordinary predictive power and the great generality of its mathematical structure, quantum theory is able, at least in principle, to describe all the microscopic and macroscopic proper …

Quantum theory is one of the most fascinating and successful constructs in the intellectual history of mankind. Nonetheless, the theory has very shaky philosophical foundations. This book contains th …

For many physicists quantum theory contains strong conceptual difficulties, while for others the apparent conclusions about the reality of our physical world and the ways in which we discover that re …

HISTORICAL PRELUDE Ettore Majorana’s fame solidly rests on testimonies like the following, from the evocative pen of Giuseppe Cocconi. At the request of Edoardo Amaldi, he wrote from CERN (July 18, 1 …