Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier /

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, lỚ"eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae...

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Other Authors: Amoroso, Richard L. (Editor), Hunter, Geoffrey. (Editor), Kafatos, Menas. (Editor), Vigier, Jean-Pierre. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application ; 126
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Summary:Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, lỚ"eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400! He wrote of his mentor Louis de Broglie ỚSGreat physicists fight great battlesỚ<U+00fd>, which perhaps applies even more so to 1 Jean-Pierre Vigier himself . If fortune allows a visit to Paris, reported to be the city of love, and certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in the world; one has been treated to a visual and cultural feast. For example a leisurely stroll from the Musee du Louvre along the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe would instill even the least creative soul with the entelechies of a poets muse. It is perhaps open to theoretical interpretation, but if causal conditions have allowed one to be a physicist, visiting Paris, one may have taken opportunity to visit the portion of the old Latin quarter in place Jussieu where Pierre et Marie Curie Universite, reported to be Ớ<U+00dc>the best university in FranceỚ", is stationed.
Physical Description:XVII, 540 p. 43 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9780306480522