LECTURE 43
goals and outline
The Nobel Prize: Tracing the Ideas of Modern Physics
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Go through Nobel list
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This ``shuddering before the beautiful,'' this incredible fact that a
discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should
find its exact replica in Nature, persuades me to say that beauty is that
to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.
-- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Like a gleam in the darkness, we have appeared for an instant from the
black nothingness of the ever-unconscious matter, in order to make good the
demands of Reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the Goal we
only dimly perceive.
-- Andrei Sakharov
Please email any questions, comments, or suggestions to Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.
Revised December 3, 1997.
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