Conference Nobel Conference (12th : 1976 : Gustavus Adolphus College)

Title The nature of the physical universe : 1976 Nobel Conference / organized by Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota ; edited by Douglas Huff, Omer Prewett.

Imprint New York : Wiley, c1979.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  QC793 .N63 1976  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 140 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Contents What is an elementary particle? / Victor F. Weisskopf -- What are the building blocks of matter? / Murray Gell-Mann -- Is nature simple? / Steven Wienberg -- An astronomer's view of the evolution of man / Sir Fred Hoyle -- The chaos of scientific cosmology / Stanley L. Jaki -- The place of facts in a world of values / Hilary Whitehall Putnam.
Subject(s) Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Congresses.
Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Cosmology -- Congresses.
Alternate Author Huff, Douglas, 1944-
Prewett, Omer, 1939-
Gustavus Adolphus College.