Unification of fundamental forces : the first of the 1988 Dirac memorial lectures
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Unification of fundamental forces : the first of the 1988 Dirac memorial lectures
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Dirac memorial lectures
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Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, died in 1984. Dirac's college, St John's of Cambridge, generously endowed annual lectures to be held at Cambridge University in his memory. This 1990 volume includes an expanded version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture presented by Abdus Salam, in addition to two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac and by Werner Heisenberg.
Table of Contents
- Foreword John C. Taylor
- 1. Unification of fundamental forces Abdus Salam
- 2. History unfolding: an introduction to the two 1968 lectures by W. Heisenberg and P. A. M. Dirac Abdus Salam
- 3. Theory, criticism, and a philosophy Werner Heisenberg
- 4. Methods in theoretical physics Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac.
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