Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently, Newton's Principia for the Common Reader. |
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... energy a - particles emitted by a radioactive substance , Rutherford allowed them to fall on a thin foil and found that sometimes the a - particles were actually scattered backward - rarely but certainly . Recalling this later in his ...
... energy a - particles emitted by a radioactive substance , Rutherford allowed them to fall on a thin foil and found that sometimes the a - particles were actually scattered backward - rarely but certainly . Recalling this later in his ...
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... energy of the sun - a striking example of the synthesis of many types of investigations . Let me consider one further example . In 1926 Fermi and Dirac were led to a reformulation of the laws of statistical mechanics as they ap- plied ...
... energy of the sun - a striking example of the synthesis of many types of investigations . Let me consider one further example . In 1926 Fermi and Dirac were led to a reformulation of the laws of statistical mechanics as they ap- plied ...
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... energy and producing a bizarre world around us , Dirac suggested that normally all states of negative energy are occu- pied so that the few remaining electrons with positive energy cannot get into such states , normally speaking , that ...
... energy and producing a bizarre world around us , Dirac suggested that normally all states of negative energy are occu- pied so that the few remaining electrons with positive energy cannot get into such states , normally speaking , that ...
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... energy , orderliness , and thoroughness which are the characteristics of Rutherford . To take another example : During the period including the First World War and the twenties , the very immense task of unraveling complex atomic ...
... energy , orderliness , and thoroughness which are the characteristics of Rutherford . To take another example : During the period including the First World War and the twenties , the very immense task of unraveling complex atomic ...
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Contents
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Its Motivations 1985 | 15 |
Shakespeare Newton and Beethoven or Patterns of Creativity 1975 | 29 |
4 Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science 1979 | 59 |
Edward Arthur Milne His Part in the Development of Modern Astrophysics 1979 | 74 |
1982 Eddington The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time | 93 |
The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity 1986 | 144 |
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