Author: Heisenberg, Werner [1901-1976]
Title: Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles : And Other Essays on People, Places and Particles
Description: Princeton [NJ], Princeton University Press, 1983. orig. wrappers. 21x14cm, 141 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time?..." - Publisher's desctiption.

Keywords: History of Science, Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics, Particles, , , , ,