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  title info:
    title: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics
  name:
    name part: Drieschner, Michael.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 189 p. 30 illus., 17 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents a collection of texts by the German physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), for use in seminars on the history, epistemology and structure of physics. Most texts appear in English for the first time. Weizsäcker became famous through his works in physics, mainly in the early development of nuclear physics. Later he would also become well known as a philosopher and analyst of contemporary culture. Texts include the original publications of the “Weizsäcker-Bethe formula” of nuclear masses and the “Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle,” which explains the source of energy in the sun; both were developed by Bethe at the same time and independently of Weizsäcker. Further texts deal with Weizsäcker’s explanation of the origin of planets, his explanation of the “time arrow” in Statistical Mechanics and his analyses of Quantum Mechanics and the structure of physics in general.
  table of contents: Introduction -- On Elementary Transmutations in the Interior of Stars. Paper II -- The Formation of the Planetary System -- The History of Nature, Introduction -- The Second Law and the Difference between Past and Future -- A Sketch of the Unity of Physics -- Quantum Theory -- Probability and Abstract Quantum Theory -- The Philosophy of Alternatives -- Matter and Consciousness -- Matter, Energy, Information.
  note: edited by Michael Drieschner.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
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  identifier: 9783319036687
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03668-7
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