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Unification of Fundamental Forces

Unification of Fundamental Forces

Unification of Fundamental Forces

The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture
Abdus Salam
John C. Taylor
October 2005
Available
Paperback
9780521020787

    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an expanded version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture presented by Abdus Salam, in addition to two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac and by Werner Heisenberg.

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    October 2005
    Paperback
    9780521020787
    156 pages
    204 × 126 × 10 mm
    0.183kg
    Available

    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.
      Contributors
    • John C. Taylor, Abdus Salam, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac

    • Author
    • Abdus Salam
    • John C. Taylor