Kursunoglu (Behram N.) and Wigner (Eugene P.), eds. on Paul Dirac
Reference : 100454
(1987)
Cambridge University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's white printed dust-jacket, illustrated by a sculpture of Dirac face grand In-8 1 vol. - 315 pages
1 place in frontispiece, portrait of Paul Dirac, by Richard Feynman 1st edition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Contributors, A memorial to P.A.M. Dirac, Preface, Chronology, xviii, Text, 297 pages - 1. Human Side : Margit Dirac : Thinking of my darling Paul - Sevda A. Kursunoglu : Dirac in Coral Gables - Joseph E. Lannutti : Recollections of Paul Dirac at Florida State University - Harish-Chandra : My association with professor Dirac - N. Kemmer : What Paul Dirac meant in my life - Rudolf Peierls : Dirac's way - A.D. Krisch : An experimenter's view of P.A.M. Dirac - Henry King Stanford : Dirac at the University of Miami - Eugene P. Wigner : Remebering Paul Dirac - 2. More scientific ideas : R.H. Dalitz : Another side of Paul Dirac - Abraham Pais : Playing with equations, the Dirac way - Laurie M. Brown and Helmut Rechenberg : Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg, a partnership in science - William J. Marciano and Maurice Goldhaber : Dirac's magnetic monopole and the fine structure constant - F. Hoyle : Magnetic monopoles and the halos of galaxies - P.A.M. Dirac : The inadequacies of quantum field theory - P.T. Mathews : Dirac and the foundations of quantum mechanics - 3. Influenced and inspired by association : J.C. Polkinghorne : At the feet of Dirac - Nevill Mott : Reminiscences of Paul Dirac - Harry J. Lipkin : From relativistic quantum theory to the human brain - J. Weber : Dirac in 1962, weak and gravitational radiation interactions - Willis E. Lamb, jr : Schrödinger's cat - Abdus Salam : Dirac and finite field theories - Behram N. Kursunoglu : Dirac's influence on unified field theory - Index Near fine copy, the dust-jacket is fine, very lightly yellowing, it remains clean, inside is fine, no markings, small foxings on the right side of the book, inside remains clean, it's still a nice copy