EAN: 9781563963865

PHYSICS AND SOCIETY GEBUNDEN

This collection of essays by scientists from around the world honors Victor Frederick Weisskopf
one of the true luminaries of twentieth- century physics. Among the many breakthroughs his
research has yielded have been the theory of the widths of energy levels of the electron  the
Clouded Crystal Ball model of nuclear structure  and the MIT Bag model of hadronic matter. For
his contributions to physics  Dr. Weisskopf has been awarded the Max Planck Medal  the J.
Robert Oppenheimer Medal  and most recently  the Karl Taylor Compton Award. The essays in this
book  by some of the world's leading physicists  including seven nobel prize winners  address
topics ranging from Weisskopf's contributions to theoretical physics to more intimate views of
his role as teacher  friend  and humanist. Contributors include: Hans A. Bethe  Hendrick B.G.
Casimir  Georges Charpak  Sidney D. Drell  Evgenii L. Feinberg  Herman Feshbach  Jerome I.
Friedman and Henry W. Kendall  Murray Gell-Mann  Kurt Gottfried  J. David Jackson  Maurice
Jacob  Francis E. Low  Ove Nathan  Norman F. Ramsey  Walter Thirring  and Charles H. Townes.
For all his accomplishments  Victor Weisskopf remains a contemplative and unpretentious man.
Throughout the world's scientific community he is known simply as Viki. The man and his work
are revealed here by the collaborators  colleagues  and friends who know him best.

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