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Properties of matter under unusual conditions, in honor of Edward Teller's 60th birthday. / Edited by Hans Mark and Sidney Fernbach.
LIBRA Q171 .P98
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teller, Edward, 1908-2003.
- Teller, Edward.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 389 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Interscience Publishers, [1969]
- Contents:
- An appreciation on the 60th birthday of Edward Teller, by E. P. Wigner.
- The concept of "understanding" in theoretical physics, by W. Heisenberg.
- On the origin of galaxies, by G. Gamow.
- The origin of deep-focus earthquakes, by D. T. Griggs and D. W. Baker.
- Response of rocks to stress, by G. H. Higgins.
- Material properties at high pressure, by R. E. Duff.
- Polymeric materials for extreme conditions, by H. F. Mark.
- Ultra-high neutron fluxes; their production and use, by F. de Hoffmann and W. L. Whittemore.
- The physics of high temperature plasma, by R. F. Post.
- Numerical simulation of turbulent flow, by C. E. Leith.
- A statistical mechanical treatment of macroscopic change with time, by J. E. Mayer.
- Approximate symmetries in atomic and elementary particle physics, by H. P. Dürr.
- On the theory of near-adiabatic transitions, by K. M. Watson.
- Some solutions of the classical isotopic gauge field equations, by T. T. Wu and C. N. Yang.
- Eigenvalues of Casimir operators, by C. L. Critchfield.
- Strange matter, by J. A. Wheeler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- ISBN:
- 0470569905
- OCLC:
- 1170
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