Author Description

Pt. I. Oskar Klein / Inga Fischer-Hjalmars and Bertel Laurent -- Symmetry and physics / Chen Ning Yang -- From the Bethe-Hulthen hypothesis to the Yang-Baxter equation / Chen Ning Yang -- Beyond the standard models / Steven Weinberg -- Precision tests of quantum mechanics / Steven Weinberg -- Quantum theory and five-dimensional relativity theory / Oskar Klein -- The atomicity of electricity as a quantum theory law / Oskar Klein -- On the field theory of charged particles / Oskar Klein -- From my life of physics / Oskar Klein -- Scientific bibliography of Oskar Klein -- pt. II. Theory of neutrinos from the sun / Hans A. Bethe -- Supernova theory / Hans A. Bethe -- The big bang and cosmic inflation / Alan H. Guth -- Do the laws of physics allow us to create a new universe? / Alan H. Guth -- The Klein-Nishina formula / Gosta Ekspong -- On the scattering of radiation by free electrons according to Dirac's new relativistic quantum dynamics / O. Klein and Y. Nishina -- The reflection of electrons at a potential jump according to Dirac's relativistic dynamics / O. Klein -- Excerpts from some autobiographical notes / O. Klein -- pt. III. The weak interaction: Its history and impact on physics / T.D. Lee -- The power of duality - Exact results in 4D SUSY field theory / N. Seiberg -- String theory as a universal language / A.M. Polyakov -- The cosmological tests / P.J.E. Peebles -- Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories / Edward Witten -- Can there be physics without experiments? Challenges and pitfalls / Gerard't Hooft