Unification of Fundamental Forces
The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture
An expanded 1990 version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture, plus two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg.
Abdus Salam (Author), John C. Taylor (Foreword by)
9780521371407, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 25 May 1990
154 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.262 kg
"This engaging little book consists mainly of a personal history by Abdus Salam of unification of physics, supplemented by two contrasting lectures by Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac." Physics Today
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an expanded version of the third Dirac Memorial Lecture presented by Abdus Salam, in addition to two previously unpublished lectures by Paul Dirac and by Werner Heisenberg.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.
Subject Areas: Physics [PH]