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This selection of essays covers a wide range of subjects connected with the physical sciences and their relation to human affairs. They are broadly conceived and directed to a generally interested audience rather than to specialists in particular areas. Some are written for the initiated, some are broad synopses of a branch of physics and are directed to the scientifically interested layman. Some deal with more philosophic questions such as Niels Bohr's ideas on complementarity, and others deal with the problems of science, ethics, and society. Hans Bethe writes as follows in the "His summary articles on special topics are lucid and are 'popular scientific writing' at its best. The subject is made clear to physicists in other branches of physics and to the educated public by simplifying it, but without ever making a compromise with fundamental accuracy, as many popular writers on science do when they get enamored with their own imagery and forget the subject that they really want to explain. Viki's [Weisskopf's] main concern, as of most theoretical physicists, is the correct interpretation of the quantum theory.... This theme is already prominent in 1951 in his article 'Quantity an

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Author

[by] Victor F. Weisskopf. Foreword by Hans A. Bethe

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262230568

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Physics, Stem