Portrait of Gunnar Källén A Physics Shooting Star and Poet of Early Quantum Field Theory /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jarlskog, Cecilia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Mathematical Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Wolfgang Pauli referred to him as 'my discovery,' Robert Oppenheimer described him as 'one of the most gifted theorists' and Niels Bohr found him enormously stimulating. Who was the man in question, Gunnar Källén (1926-1968)? His appearance in the physics sky was like a shooting...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Youth, Career, Personality, Legacy, Family and Fatal Accident
• Part II Correspondence With Pauli, Heisenberg and Dirac; Källén in Action
• Part III Promotion of Science in His Honor
• Part IV On Källén`s Scientific Work
• Part V Publications, Selected Papers and Commentaries
• Selected Papers
• Additional Commentaries.