Title:
The Pyramid and the Ring - on the restructuring of physics in modern times
Speaker:
Peter Galison
Subject:
cosmology
Area:
Astronomy
Type of school:
LABORATORY
School name:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Country:
United States
Course language:
English
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
pbp
Comments:
Pegram Lectures: Peter Galison
Peter Galison, Pellegrino Professor of the History of Science and Physics at Harvard University, gave a series of three lectures at Brookhaven on November 2 and 3, 2006.
The Pyramid and the Ring - on the restructuring of physics in modern times. Galison maintains that certain branches of research that are generally thought to be physics are not considered part of the discipline by some scientists.