Unification of Fundamentals Physics: The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture

Abdus Salam
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521020787, ISBN10: 0521020786

Paperback, 156 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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an expanded version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture presented by Abdus Salam, in addition to two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac and by Werner Heisenberg.

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.