At home in the universe / John Archibald Wheeler.
By: Wheeler, John Archibald.
Material type: BookSeries: Masters of modern physics ; v. 9.Publisher: New York : American Institute of Physics, c1994Description: vi, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0883188627.Subject(s): Science | PhysicsDDC classification: 500Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Colleague of Einstein and Bohr, pioneer of nuclear fission theory, and champion of the theory of black holes, Wheeler has made significant contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, elementary-particle physics, relativity theory, cosmology, and astrophysics. This collection of essays is a mix of reminiscence, science, and conjecture. He writes of debates with Bohr, talks with Einstein, other friends and collaborators, and great physicists who exemplify the scientific spirit. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.
Science Smiles -- A septet of sibyls: aids in the search for truth -- Genesis and observership -- Our universe: the known and the unknown -- Elan and Morale -- The morale of research people -- Be the best to give the most -- To Nicolaus Copernicus -- To Joseph Henry -- The spirit of colleagueship at Princeton -- Bohr and Einstein -- Niels Bohr and nuclear physics -- Delayed-choice experiments and the Bohr-Einsteins dialogue -- The outsider -- To Albert Einstein -- No fugitive and cloistered virtue -- Einstein and other seekers of the wider view -- More Greats -- Maria Sklodowska Curie and the world of the small -- Hermann Weyl and the unity of knowledge -- Hendrik Anthony Kramers -- Hideki Yukawa as uniquely ecumenical -- From Half-life to human life -- Dealing with risk -- To Benjamin Franklin -- Science and survival -- The place of science in modern life -- Beyond the black hole -- Beyond the black hole -- It from bit.