On Modern Physics
by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger, and Pierre Auger
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Four of the world's greatest physicists (Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, Pierre Auger) discuss, in nontechnical language, the ways we see and think about the world in the age of nuclear physics. [from inside cover]
* A solution in the nuclear era to problems raised by the ancient Greek philosophers
* How modern science has made our concept of matter more uncertain than ever before
* The dangerously outmoded thinking of both sides in the Cold War and what can be done! about it
* The limits of scientific knowledge
These are among the subjects discussed here by three Nobel laureates and a leading authority on space exploration— scientists and philosophers who are able to speak directly and imaginatively both to their colleagues and to laymen. This short volume casts new light on some of the most important and least understood issues of our time. [back cover]
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Originally published by Paolo Boringhieri Editore, Turin
English translation by M. Goodman and J. W. Binns
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The book is an English translation of an Italian translation of original talks in German, or of the French translation of the German original (one case, the Born lecture)...
The public lectures were given at three different Rencontres internationales de Genève in 1952, 1957 and 1958, as follows [chronological order]:
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Erwin Schrödinger, 1952, delivered in German, published in original German plus a French summary, as 'Unsere Vorstellung von der Materie', in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 7, L'Homme devant la science, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1952, pp. 31-54.
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Pierre Auger, 1952, delivered and published in French as 'Les méthodes et les limites de la connaissance scientifique.' at the same conference/same publication as Schrödinger's, pp.55-80.
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Max Born, 1957, delivered in German, published in French translation as 'Réflexions d’un homme de science européen' in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 12, L'Europe et le Monde d'Aujourd'hui, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1958, pp. 29-48; original German appeared as 'Europäische Betrachtungen eines Naturforschers', Universitas, 13/3, S.225-240, Stuttgart 1958
- Werner Heisenberg, 1958, delivered in German, published in original German plus a French summary, as 'Die Plancksche Entdeckung und die philosophischen' in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 13, L'Homme et l'atome, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1958, pp. 37-60; debate pp. 189-203.
The electronic versions of all Rencontres are publicly available as text pdfs (not facsimiles). See "Links" section.
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