Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009513470 |
| ISBN10: | 1009513478 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 264 pages |
| Size: | 236x159x16 mm |
| Weight: | 570 g |
| Language: | English |
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Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 12 December 2024
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Short description:
Steven Weinberg reflects on his life in physics for a broad audience spanning physicists, historians of science, and general readers.
Long description:
Steven 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.
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.
