A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

by B.G. Sidharth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402043597
• ISBN13: 9781402043598
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"