Modern Physics in America: A Michelson-Morley Centennial Symosium: Cleveland, OH 1987 (AIP Conference Proceedings)

American Institute of Physics, March 1998. Hardcover. Very Good. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Previous owners name stamped on edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Physics at High Energy and Small Distances: What are the Limits? by Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky -- 2.) Reminiscences of My Father by Dorothy Michelson Livingston -- 3.) Atoms, Molecules and Light by Arthur L. Schawlow -- 4.) The Life of the Stars by Hans A. Bethe -- 5.) Neutrinos from the Atmosphere and Beyond by Frederick Reines -- 6.) The Search for gravitational Waves: Probing the Dynamics of Space-time by Peter F. Michelson -- 7.) Experimental gaze at nonlinear phnomena by Albert J. Libchaber -- 8.) A Physicist's View of Biology by Ivar Giaever -- 9.) Strange Insulators, Strange Semiconductors, Strange Metals: High Tc as a Case History in Condensed Matter Physics by Philip W. Anderson -- 10.) Grand Challenges to Computational Science by Kenneth G. Wilson -- 11.) The Supercollider: Assault on the Summit by Leon Lederman -- 12.) Is the whold universe composed of Superstrings? by Murray Gell-Mann -- 13.) SN1987A: The Supernova of a Lifetime by Robert Kirshner -- 14.) The Discovery and Physics of Superconductivity above 100K by Ching Wu Paul Chu Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.