Author(s): Harry Woolf (ed.)
Edition: Second printing
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Year: 1981
Language: English
Commentary: No attempt at file size reduction
Tags: History of Physics
Einstein's Europe / Felix Gilbert --
Albert Einstein : encounter with America / Harry Woolf --
Relativity and twentieth-century intellectual life / Ernest Nagel --
Einstein's scientific program : the formative years / Gerald Holton --
On some other approaches to electrodynamics in 1905 / Arthur I. Miller --
Special relativity theory in engineering / Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky --
Comments on "Special relativity theory in engineering" / Edward M. Purcell --
Experimental challenges posed by the general theory of relativity / Irwin I. Shapiro --
Comments on "Experimental relativity / David T. Wilkinson --
Theoretical advances in general relativity / Stephen W. Hawking --
Comments on S. Hawking's "Theoretical advances in general relativity" / William G. Unruh --
No firm foundation : Einstein and the early quantum theory / Martin J. Klein --
Einstein's critique of Planck / Thomas S. Kuhn --
Einstein on particles, fields, and the quantum theory / Abraham Pais --
Comment on "Einstein on particles, fields, and the quantum theory" / Res Jost --
General relativity and differential geometry / Shiing-shen Chern --
Mathematics and physics / Tullio Regge --
The size and shape of the universe / Martin J. Rees --
Comment on "The size and shape of the universe / Phillip J.E. Peebles --
Galaxies and intergalactic matter / George B. Field --
Comment on "galaxies and intergalactic matter" / Wallace L.W. Sargent --
Beyond the black hole / John Archibald Wheeler --
Comment on the topic "Beyond the black hole" / Freeman Dyson --
Issues in cosmology / Dennis W. Sciama --
Symmetry paradoxes and other cosmological comments / Charles W. Misner --
On the extragalactic distance scale and the Hubble constant / Gerard de Vaucouleurs --
Quantum gravity and supergravity / Yuval Ne'eman --
Supergravity / Peter van Nieuwenhuizen --
Thirty years of knowing Einstein / Eugene P. Wigner --
Reminiscences of Einstein / Else Rosenthal-Schneider --
Some reminiscences about Einstein's visits to Leiden / George E. Uhlenbeck --
On playing with scientists : remarks at the Einstein centennial celebration concert by the Juilliard quartet / Robert Mann
