E.C.G. Stueckelberg, An Unconventional Figure of Twentieth Century Physics Selected Scientific Papers with Commentaries /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lacki, Jan. (Editor), Ruegg, Henri. (Editor), Wanders, Gřard. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Physics, general.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8878-2

Born in 1905, Ernst C. G. Stueckelberg was professor of theoretical physics at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne in the years 1930-1970. He was one of the most eminent Swiss physicists of the 20th century. His breakthroughs, from his causal S-matrix to the renormalization group, have influence...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Preface
• Conventions and notations
• Overview of Stueckelberg's Life as a Scientist
• Stueckelberg in Geneva and Lausanne
• Stueckelberg and Molecular Physics
• Stueckelberg's Covariant Perturbation Theory
• Stueckelberg's Unitary Field Theory: 1936-1939
• Stueckelberg 1937-1942: The B-Field and Antiparticles as Time-Reversed Particles
• Stueckelberg and S-Matrix Theory and the Renormalization Group
• Relativistic Thermodynamics
• Stueckelberg's Selected Papers
• Stueckelberg's Complete List of Publications
• Index.