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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... particles . The experiment he performed was quite simple . Using a source of high - 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 ...
... particles . The experiment he performed was quite simple . Using a source of high - 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 ...
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... particles scattered through a given angle should be propor- tional to the thickness of the foil , the square of the nuclear charge , and inversely proportional to the fourth power of the velocity . These deduc- tions were later verified ...
... particles scattered through a given angle should be propor- tional to the thickness of the foil , the square of the nuclear charge , and inversely proportional to the fourth power of the velocity . These deduc- tions were later verified ...
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... particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that varies inversely as the square of their distance apart and directly as the masses of the two particles . You will notice the use of the word " universe " in this ...
... particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that varies inversely as the square of their distance apart and directly as the masses of the two particles . You will notice the use of the word " universe " in this ...
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... to realize that the same basic ideas which account for the motions of microscopic colloidal particles in solution also account for the motions of stars in clusters . This basic identity of the two problems , which is far - THE SCIENTIST / ...
... to realize that the same basic ideas which account for the motions of microscopic colloidal particles in solution also account for the motions of stars in clusters . This basic identity of the two problems , which is far - THE SCIENTIST / ...
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... particles suffer with the molecules of the surrounding fluid . Since even the smallest colloi- dal particle is several million times more massive than the individual molecules , it is apparent that a single collision can hardly make an ...
... particles suffer with the molecules of the surrounding fluid . Since even the smallest colloi- dal particle is several million times more massive than the individual molecules , it is apparent that a single collision can hardly make an ...
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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