Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
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USDSteven Weinberg shares his candid thoughts, in his own words, on theoretical physics and cosmology, along with personal anecdotes and recollections of the people who helped shape his career. These memoirs of his life as a scientist and public figure cover his student days and early career, through the golden age of particle physics in the 1970s, his being awarded the Nobel prize, through to the end of the twentieth century. In addition to his research insights, Weinberg provides glimpses into his life in academia more broadly: dealing with the 'two-body problem', tenure, international conference travel, his book-writing, advisory work with JASON, and his advocacy for the Superconducting Super Collider. Physicists, historians of science and interested readers will find the presentation engaging and often witty, as Weinberg reflects on his life in physics.
- Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg reveals his personal thoughts on various topics in theoretical physics and cosmology and how his work developed at key points through his career
- Includes candid accounts of his successes and failures, anecdotes of his interactions with many of the century's most famous scientists, and glimpses of his life beyond his physics research
- Weinberg's unique story, uniquely told in his inimitable style
Reviews & endorsements
'A roughly chronological account of his life up to the 1990s, with his perspective on the development of fundamental physics over the past century. … written for a wide audience, featuring neither unexplained jargon nor even a single equation … Non-specialists might sometimes be overwhelmed by the details of Weinberg's account of the development of the standard model. But he takes care to leaven his narrative with engaging accounts of his meetings with other famous physicists, including Robert Oppenheimer and quantum pioneers Niels Bohr and Wolfgang Pauli. Most fascinating are his experiences as a member of the JASON group of top-drawer scientists that gives independent, secret advice to the US government … As his splendidly readable memoir shows, Big Steve was much more than a great scientist, however - his appetite for life was nothing short of gargantuan.' Graham Farmelo, Nature
Product details
December 2024Adobe eBook Reader
9781009513456
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Preface: The Twentieth Century
- 1. First Things
- 2. Turning to Science
- 3. Cornell
- 4. Copenhagen
- 5. Princeton
- 6. Manhattan
- 7. San Francisco and Berkeley
- 8. East to London
- 9. Berkeley
- 10. Cambridge, 1966–69
- 11. Cambridge, 1969–72
- 12. Cambridge, 1972–79
- 13. Gone-to-Texas
- 14. SuperCollider Days
- 15. Austin: the 1980s
- 16. The Dark Energy
- 17. Austin: the 1990s
- Bibliography
- Image credits
- Index.
