Table of Contents: “…Paul Dirac: aspects of his life and work / Abraham Pais -- Antimatter / Maurice Jacob -- The monopole / David I. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Linus Pauling -- Richard Feynman -- Paul Dirac -- Victor Weisskopf -- Hans Bethe -- John Wheeler -- George Wald -- Arno Penzias -- Robert Jastrow -- Charles Townes -- Arthur Schawlow -- Harold Urey -- Hans Selye -- Henri Ellenberger -- Theodor Reik -- Murray Sherman -- Henry Murray -- Cornelia Wilbur -- Ashley Montagu -- Wilder Penfield -- Roger Sperry -- Torsten Wiesel.…”

Table of Contents: “…Our first quantum object : light -- Another interference experiment -- Particles -- Quantum states -- Amplitudes -- Measurement -- The complex plane -- Interference -- The free particle -- Identical particles -- Scattering identical bosons -- Matrix operators -- Spin -- Fermion states -- Wave functions -- Uncertainty -- Heisenberg's Equation -- Genealogy -- Planck and Einstein -- Niels Bohr -- Werner Heisenberg -- Erwin Schrödinger -- Paul Dirac -- Conclusions -- Applications of quantum theory -- Entanglement -- The density operator -- Interpretations -- The Copenhagen interpretation -- The many worlds interpretation -- Other interpretations -- Quantum field theory -- Personal conclusions.…”
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