Symmetries in physics (1600-1980): Proceedings of the 1st International Meeting on the History of Scientific Ideas held at the Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Catalonia, Spain (1987)
Doncel, Manuel Gargía (Editor)
Hermann, Armin (Editor)
Michel, Louis (Editor)
Pais, Abraham (Editor)
Seminari d'Història de les Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Physical Details: xv + 678 pp.; illus.; notes; index
Description Contents: Roche, John: A critical study of symmetry in physics from Galileo to Newton. Speiser, David: The principle of relativity in Euler's work. Hermann, Armin: Unity and metamorphosis of forces (1800-1850): Schelling, Oersted and Faraday. Mainzer, Klaus: G.W. Leibniz: Principles of symmetry and conservation law. Kaiser, Walter: Symmetries in romantic physics. D'Agostino, Salvo: Symmetry in Ampère's electrodynamics. Donini, Elisabetta: Einstein and a realistic conception of light-matter symmetry, 1905-1925. Kastrup, Hans A.: The contribution of Emmy Noeter, Felix Klein and Sophus Lie to the modern concept of symmetries in physical systems. José M. SÁnchez-Ron: The role played by symmetries in the introduction of relativity in Great Britain. Radicati, Luigi A.: Remarks on the early developments of the notion of symmetry breaking. Bergia, Silvio: Who discovered the Bose-Einstein statistics? Amaldi, Edoardo: The Fermi-Dirac statistics and the statistics of nuclei. Wheaton, Bruce R.: Symmetries of matter and light: Early reactions to the lightquantum. Miller, Arthur I.: Symmetry and imagery in the physics of Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg. Meyenn, Karl von: Pauli's belief in exact symmetries. Pais, Abraham: Conservation of energy. Sexl, Roman U.: Symmetries in cosmology. Michel, Louis: Charge conjugation. Doncel, Manuel G.: From magnet reversal to time reversal. Telegdi, Valentine L.: Parity violation. Fitch, Val L.: A personal view of the discovery of CP violation. Gell-Mann, Murray: Particle theory from S-matrix to quarks. Ne'eman, Yuval: Hadron symmetry, classification, and compositeness. Gürsey, Feza: Quaternionic and octonionic structures in physics. Fritzsch, Harald: The development of quantum chronodynamics. Wigner, Eugene P.: Initial conditions, laws of nature, symmetries, and their history in physics.
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