Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, mostly on Physics and Astronomy. The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question. The lectures are aimed at a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
| ISBN: | 9781402043598 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Sidharth, B. G. |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.04.2008 |
| Untertitel: | Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century |
| Schlagworte: | Accelerator Physics Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences Astrophysics B History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics History of Science Particle & high-energy physics Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics Particle acceleration Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy Physics Physics, general Physics and Astronomy Quantum Field Theories, String Theory Quantum field theory Statistical physics String Theory Theoretical & mathematical astronomy Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics astronomy |
B.G. Sidharth got his B.Sc. (Mathematics Honors), M.Sc. and PhD from Calcutta University. After working for several years in Quantum Scattering, Dr. Sidharth’s work entered on the fundamental problems facing Physics today. His 1997 papers, contrary to the ruling paradigm, predicted a dark energy driven accelerating Universe with a small cosmological constant. Remarkably, this was confirmed in 1998. His work deals with fuzzy spacetime and the unification of interactions and similar problems within this context. Besides a large number of research publications in international journals, Dr. Sidharth also authored and edited a number of books. In addition he has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, Europe and other places. B.G. Sidharth is the founder-director of the B.M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, and its constituent, the International Institute for Applicable Mathematics and Information Sciences, Hyderabad, and Udine, Italy. He was associated with the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, for many years having been a Senior Associate. Dr. Sidharth is on the Editorial / Advisory boards of international journals, institutes and award committees. Last but not least he played host to many Nobel Laureates and other physicists of World importance.