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

by Geoffrey Hunter, Menas Kafatos, J.P. Vigier, et al.

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l'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 "Great physicists fight great battles", which perhaps applies even more so to 1 Jean-Pierre Vigier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401739366
• ISBN13: 9789401739368
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"