By M.J. Sparnaay, A. Sarlemijn
H.B.G. Casimir's existence, pursuits and works are intertwined with the $64000 advancements that experience taken position in physics in this century. This publication used to be compiled via his neighbors and admirers in honour of his eightieth birthday and concentrates ordinarily on Casimir's achievements within the box of physics, although with no ignoring the peripheral components of the historical past and philosophy of physics within which he used to be vastly .
The booklet is split into 4 elements. half I describes Casimir's lecturers, Ehrenfest, Bohr and Pauli, and may be of common curiosity as a result of key function which those physicists performed in glossy advancements. The articles do supply new proof and supply new insights into the historical past of contemporary physics.
Part II contains essays on contemporary advancements in quite a few parts of physics during which Casimir has taken an energetic curiosity, similar to the fashionable suggestion of time, statistical foundations of electrodynamic idea and box theory.
The matters lined partly III were chosen as a result of Casimir's efforts within the business study quarter of physics. They conceal prior, current and destiny expectancies in research.
Part IV includes an essay which discusses a philosophy of physics at present less than dialogue, which states that phenomenological legislation succeed over basic ones for the aim of experimental and technical physics. A moment bankruptcy during this ultimate half provides a serious research of this philosophical view.
The booklet is concluded by means of an appendix discussing Casimir's actions as a lecturer, written via a former student.
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Gamow and L. R. [6]. The first of the stream of youngsters from abroad to come and work in Bohr's ambiance had been another Dutchman, who had arrived in Denmark in 1916, before there was an Institute, the unforgettable Hans Kramers. Between 1916 and 1961, the year before Bohr's death, 444 visiting physicists from 35 countries (18 of which, including this author, were Dutch born) had spent at least a month in Copenhagen [7]. During Bohr's lifetime about 1200 papers were published from his Institute, including, besides his own full oeuvre, such gems as young Heisenberg's papers on the uncertainty relations and on the quantum mechanics of the helium atom, and young Dirac's on the transformation theory as well as his first paper on quantum electrodynamics.
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