Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000
Abraham Pais Rochester Conference proceedings and notes, 1950-1957.
This collection includes Rochester Conference proceedings, notes and transcripts. Included are material about the Rochester Conferences on High Energy Nuclear Physics no. 1, 3-7 and the Rochester Conference on Meson Physics.
Physicist and author (1918-2000). After World War II he studied with Niels Bohr and the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, coming to the U.S. in 1946 to work at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. In 1963 he joined the faculty at Rockefeller University; named Detlev W. Bronk Professor in 1981; retired in 1988. Interested in elementary particles, formulating theories on their arrangement and also on unification of strong, weak and electro-magnetic forces which became the foundations for many late 20th-century advancements in particle physics.
Rochester Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics
Mesons
Nuclear physics
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Rochester Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA