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C.N. Yang, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th Century, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, jointly with T.D. Lee, for research concerning fundamental physical principles, astounding the world of physics by demonstrating that elementary particles and their reactions discriminate between their left- and right-handed states, a property known as parity nonconservation. With R.L. Mills, he created the concept of non-abelian gauge theories, the foundation of the modern description of elementary particles and forces. Professor Yang has worked on a wide range of subjects in physics, but his enduring concerns have been symmetry principles and statistical mechanics. In 1999, a symposium was held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to mark the retirement of C.N. Yang as Einstein Professor and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and to celebrate his many achievements. A noteworthy selection of the papers presented at the symposium appears in this volume in honor of Professor Yang.

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Author:   Alfred Scharff Goldhaber (State Univ Of New York At Stony Brook, Usa) ,  R Shrock (State Univ Of New York At Stony Brook, Usa) ,  John Smith (State Univ Of New York At Stony Brook, Usa) ,  George Sterman (State Univ Of New York At Stony Brook, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789812385031

ISBN 10:   9812385037
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   11 September 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A Conservative Revolutionary (F Dyson); Renormalization of Gauge Theories and Master Equation (J Zinn-Justin); High Tc Superconductivity: Symmetries and Reflections (S C Zhang); When Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser (W Ketterle); A Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts (G Brown et al); Direct T-Violation Measurements and T-Odd Effects in Decay Experiments (L Alvarez-Gaume et al.); The Microscopic World Unveiled by Electron Waves (A Tonomura); The Hidden Information in the Standard Model (G 't Hooft); Possibilities for Spin Physics at High Energy (E Courant); The q-t Puzzle Revisited (M Goldhaber); Research and Development Towards X-Ray Free Electron Laser (L H Yu); Remarks on Yang-Mills Theory (T T Wu).

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