Dear colleagues: Please join us for a special CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) talk, on Thursday 17 September, at 16.00 in history and philosophy of science department, Free School Lane; by:
Sam Schweber (Brandeis and Harvard Universities) Title: On the transformation of "fundamental" physics in the decade 1975-1985. --- Professor Schweber needs, as they say, no introduction. But here goes! He is a very distinguished physicist and historian of physics. He is the author of the acclaimed books: QED and the Men who Made it (1994); In the Shadow of the Bomb; Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral responsibility of the Scientist (2007); Einstein and Oppenheimer: the Meaning of Genius (2010); Nuclear Forces: the Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe (2012) and, in his first career as a physicist: An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (1961, and Dover 2005) Best, Jeremy Butterfield ------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 761524 (office); 07557-668413 (mobile) Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
