Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weiseskopf by the International Community of Physicists

by V. Stefan (Editor), Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Steffan (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays by scientists from around the world honors Victor Frederick Weisskopf, one of the true luminaries of twentieth- century physics. Among the many breakthroughs his research has yielded have been the theory of the widths of energy levels of the electron, the "Clouded Crystal Ball" model of nuclear structure, and the "MIT Bag" model of hadronic matter. For his contributions to physics, Dr. Weisskopf has been awarded the Max Planck Medal, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Medal, and most recently, the Karl Taylor Compton Award. The essays in this book, by some of the world's leading physicists, including seven nobel prize winners, address topics ranging from Weisskopf's contributions to theoretical physics to more intimate views of his role as teacher, friend, and humanist. Contributors include: Hans A. Bethe; Hendrick B.G. Casimir; Georges Charpak; Sidney D. Drell; Evgenii L. Feinberg; Herman Feshbach; Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall; Murray Gell-Mann; Kurt Gottfried; J. David Jackson; Maurice Jacob; Francis E. Low; Ove Nathan; Norman F. Ramsey; Walter Thirring; and Charles H. Townes. For all his accomplishments, Victor Weisskopf remains a contemplative and unpretentious man. Throughout the world's scientific community he is known simply as Viki. The man and his work are revealed here by the collaborators, colleagues, and friends who know him best.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563963865
Publisher:	American Inst. of Physics
Publication date:	03/24/1998
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Part I: Weisskopf's Time Line; Chronology; Select Publications; Honors and Awards; Presidential Positions and Memberships.- Part II: A Man of Insight and His Journey into Depths: Reflections on a Polymathic Mind; The Poweer of Insight; Achievements in Physics; Weisskopf on Einstien and Bohr; The "Copenhagen Faust"; The MIT and the CERN; Viki: Friend, Colleague, and Teacher, Weisskopf: A Musician; Weisskopf, Science, World.- Part III: Words of Wisdom: Memorable Sayings, Opinions and Thoughts of V.F. Weisskopf.- Part IV: Weisskopf and the International Community of Physicists; Life and Science with Viki (Hans A. Bethe); Van der Waal's Forces and Zeropoint Energy (Hendrick B.G. Casimir); Victor Weisskopf: Director, Teacher, Wise Brother (Georges Charpak); Viki: Scientist, Humanist, Accompanist, and Friend (Sidney D. Drell); International Community in Science (Evgenii L. Feinberg); Viki (Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall); The Garden of Live Flowers (Murray Gell-Mann); Weisskopf Unmasked (Kurt Gottfried); The Nature of Intrinsic Magnetic Dipole Moments (J. David Jackson); Physical Societies and Physical Communities (Maurice Jacob); A Resonance Parametrization in One and Two-Channel S-Wave