Turning Points in Physics: A Series of Lectures Given at Oxford University in Trinity Term, 1958, Volume 10The end of mechanistic philosophy and the rise of field physics / R.J. Blin-Stoyle -- The quantum nature of matter and radiation / D. ter Haar -- Probability enters physics / K. Mendelssohn -- From the relative to the absolute / G. Temple -- The decline and fall of causality / F. Waismann -- Towards new concepts elementary particles / D.H. Wilkinson. |
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