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E.C.G. Stueckelberg, An Unconventional Figure of Twentieth Century Physics

Selected Scientific Papers with Commentaries

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Editors:
  1. Jan Lacki

    1. REHSEIS, UMR 7596, CNS, and Université de Genève Unité «Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences» Faculté des Sciences, Genève 4, Switzerland

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  2. Henri Ruegg

    1. Troinex, Switzerland

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  3. Gérard Wanders

    1. Lausanne, Switzerland

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Ernst C. G. Stueckelberg: Biography and Personal Recollections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview of Stueckelberg’s Life as a Scientist

      • Gérard Wanders
      Pages 3-6

    3. Stueckelberg in Geneva and Lausanne

      • Gérard Wanders
      Pages 7-10

  3. Scientific Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Stueckelberg and Molecular Physics

      • Jan Lacki
      Pages 13-23

    3. Stueckelberg’s Covariant Perturbation Theory

      • Jan Lacki
      Pages 25-51

    4. Stueckelberg’s Unitary Field Theory of 1936–1939

      • Olivier Darrigol
      Pages 53-72

    5. Stueckelberg 1937–1942: The B-Field and Antiparticles as Time-Reversed Particles

      • Henri Ruegg, Marti Ruiz-Altaba
      Pages 73-86

    6. Stueckelberg and the S-Matrix Theory

      • Gérard Wanders
      Pages 87-100

    7. Relativistic Thermodynamics

      • Werner Israel
      Pages 101-113

  4. Stueckelberg’s Selected Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Theorie der unelastischen Stösse zwischen Atomen

      Pages 117-171

    3. Relativistisch invariante Störungstlieorie des Diracechen, JElehtrons I. Teil: Streustrahlung und Bremsstrahlung

      Pages 173-196

    4. Austauschskräfte zwischen Elementarteilchen und Fermische Theorie des β-Zerfalls als Konsquenzen einer möglichen Feldtheorie der Materie [26]

      Pages 197-213

    5. Radioactive β-decay and nuclear exchange forces as a consequence of a unitary field theory [27]

      Pages 215-216

    6. Artificial radioactivity giving continuous γ-radiation [30]

      Pages 217-219

    7. Über die Methode der physikalischen Naturbeschreibung [33]

      Pages 221-246

    8. On the existence of heavy electrons [38]

      Pages 247-249

    9. Die Wechselwirkungs Kräfte in der Elektrodynamik und in der Feldtheorie der Kernkraefte (I) [39]

      Pages 251-271
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About this book

Born in 1905, Ernst C. G. Stueckelberg was professor of theoretical physics at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne in the years 1930-1970. He was one of the most eminent Swiss physicists of the 20th century. His breakthroughs, from his causal S-matrix to the renormalization group, have influenced the development of contemporary theoretical physics.

The book presents a selection of his most important scientific papers. They are preceded with a series of introductory essays, contributed by scientists and historians, specialists of Stueckelberg’s achievements and time. These essays deal with the scientific context and the issues of the various topics that Stueckelberg tackled in his scientific career and serve as an enlightening complement to the reprinted papers. The volume also contains Stueckelberg’s concise biography and an exhaustive list of his publications. It ambitions to provide an authoritative source gathering in a single place all the material needed to assessthe scientific achievements of one of the most important, albeit somehow overlooked, scientists of 20th century.

Editors and Affiliations

  • REHSEIS, UMR 7596, CNS, and Université de Genève Unité «Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences» Faculté des Sciences, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Jan Lacki

  • Troinex, Switzerland

    Henri Ruegg

  • Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gérard Wanders

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: E.C.G. Stueckelberg, An Unconventional Figure of Twentieth Century Physics

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Scientific Papers with Commentaries

  • Editors: Jan Lacki, Henri Ruegg, Gérard Wanders

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8878-2

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Birkh�user Basel 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8877-5Published: 10 December 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8878-2Published: 03 December 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 422

  • Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Physics, general

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