Overview
- First personal and scientific biography of Gunnar Kallen
- With short invited contributions by people personally acquainted with Kallen
- Includes commented reprints of some of his scientific papers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (98 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Youth, Career, Personality, Legacy, Family and Fatal Accident
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About this book
His appearance in the physics sky was like a shooting star. His contributions to the scientific debate caused excitement among young and old. Similar to his friend and mentor, Wolfgang Pauli, he demanded honesty and rigor in physics - a distinct dividing line between fact and speculation. In his obituary, Arthur S. Wightman would write: 'Gunnar Källén was a proud continuer of the tradition in quantum field theory established by Wolfgang Pauli. His papers on quantum electrodynamics in the period 1950-1954 carried the non-perturbative approach to quantum electrodynamics forward to a point beyond which very little essential progress has been made up to the present day. At the time I was trying to puzzle out the grammar of the language of quantum field theory, and here was Källén already writing poetry in the language!'. In addition to being a remarkable scientist, Källén had a very interesting personality, well worth exploring.
In her book, physicist Cecilia Jarlskog traces both the personal and scientific trajectory of this unsung hero of the early days of high-energy physics and quantum field theory. A number of invited contributions by members of the Källén family and distinguished researchers from the field, all of them personally acquainted with Källén, combine to form an authentic portrait of the researcher and the man.
Last but not least, the reader will become acquainted with some aspects of the history of particle physics in those days, as related by Källén and those who corresponded with him.A commented selection of his most important and not easily accessible papers is included as an added bonus for specialists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Portrait of Gunnar Källén
Book Subtitle: A Physics Shooting Star and Poet of Early Quantum Field Theory
Editors: Cecilia Jarlskog
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00627-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00626-0Published: 08 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37478-9Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00627-7Published: 21 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 631
Number of Illustrations: 180 b/w illustrations
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics