Niels Bohr: Physics and the World (Hardcover)

Preface 1. Overview Victor Weisskopf 2. Niels Bohr and the Development of Physics A. Pais 3. On the Origins of the Copenhagen interpretation Arthur I. Miller 4. Niels Bohr and Atomic Physics Today Daniel Kleppner 5. Condensed Matter Physics: Does Quantum Mechanics Matter? Michael E. Fisher 6. Nuclear Physics: Comments and Reflections Herman Feshbach 7. The New Ether J.D. Bjorken 8. Recent Developments in Cosmology George Field 9. Black Holes and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Gerard ‘t Hooft 10. Do Black Holes Emit Black-Body Radiation T.D. Lee 11. Quaternionic Quantum Field Theory Stephen L. Adler 12. Light and Life: Niels Bohr’s Legacy to Contemporary Biology Gunther S. Stent 13. Bertlmann’s Socks and the Nature of Reality J.S. Bell 14. Fifty Years Later: When Gedanken Experiments Become Real Experiments Alain Aspect and Philippe Grangier 15. Physical and Philosophical Issues in the Bohr-Einstein Debate Abner Shimony 16. The Soviet Reaction to Bohr’s Quantum Mechanics Loren R. Graham 17. Niels Bohr and the First Principles of Arms Control Martin J. Sherwin 18. American Attitudes on Security: Comments John Steinbruner 19. Science, Technology, and the Arms Race: European Perspectives Edoardo Amaldi