TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drieschner,Michael
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics
T2  - SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice,
SN  - 9783319036687
AV  - QC6.9 
U1  - 530.01 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - physics
KW  - Quantum theory
KW  - astronomy
KW  - Physics
KW  - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
KW  - Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
KW  - Quantum Physics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03668-7
ER  -