دانلود کتاب Physics and beyond (bookmarked)

The present book deals with the developments of atomic physics
during the past fifty years, as the author has experienced them.
Science rests on experiments; its results are attained through
talks among those who work in it and who consult one another
about their interpretation of these experiments. Such talks form
the main content of this book. Through them the author hopes
to demonstrate that science is rooted in conversations. Needless
to say, conversations cannot be reconstructed literally after
several decades. Nor is the book intended as a collection of memoirs.
Instead, the author has freely condensed and sacrificed certain
details; all he wishes to reconstruct is the broader picture. In
these conversations atomic physics does not invariably play the
most important role-far from it. Human, philosophical or
political problems will crop up time and again, and the author
hopes to show that science is quite inseparable from these more
general questions.

Many of the dramatis personae are referred to by first name,
partly because they are not known to the general public, and
partly because the author's relationship to them is best conveyed
in that way. Moreover, this should help to avoid the impression
that the author is presenting a verbatim report, true in every
detail. For that reason there has been no attempt to draw a more
precise picture of these personalities; they can, as it were, be
recognized only from their manner of speech. Careful attention,
however, has been paid to the precise atmosphere in which the
conversations took place. For in it the creative process of science
is made manifest; it helps to explain how the cooperation of
different people may culminate in scientific results of the utmost
importance.

Contents


1 First Encounter with the Atomic Concept (1919-1920)
2 The Decision to Study Physics (1920)
3 "Understanding" in Modern Physics (1920- 1922 )
4 Lessons in Politics and History (1922 - 1924)
5 Quantum Mechanics and a Talk with Einstein (1925- 1926 )
6 Fresh Fields (1926-1927)
7 Science and Religion (1927)
8 Atomic Physics and Pragmatism (1929)
9 The Relationship between Biology, Physics and Chemistry (1930-1932)
10 Quantum Mechanics and Kantian Philosophy (1930 - 1934)
11 Discussions about Language (1933)
12 Revolution and University Life (1933)
13 Atomic Power and Elementary Particles (1935-1937)
14 Individual Behavior in the Face of Political Disaster (1937-1941)
15 Toward a New Beginning (1941-1945)
16 The Responsibility of the Scientist (1945-195°)
17 Positivism, Metaphysics and Religion (1952 )
18 Scientific and Political Disputes (1956-1957)
19 The Unified Field Theory (1957-1958)
20 Elementary Particles and Platonic Philosophy (1961-1965)