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Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale

Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2002

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Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 126)

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About this book

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l’eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400! He wrote of his mentor Louis de Broglie “Great physicists fight great battles”, which perhaps applies even more so to 1 Jean-Pierre Vigier himself . If fortune allows a visit to Paris, reported to be the city of love, and certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in the world; one has been treated to a visual and cultural feast. For example a leisurely stroll from the Musee du Louvre along the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe would instill even the least creative soul with the entelechies of a poets muse. It is perhaps open to theoretical interpretation, but if causal conditions have allowed one to be a physicist, visiting Paris, one may have taken opportunity to visit the portion of the old Latin quarter in place Jussieu where Pierre et Marie Curie Universite, reported to be ‘the best university in France’, is stationed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Noetic Advanced Studies Institute, Orinda, USA

    Richard L. Amoroso

  • York University, Toronto, Canada

    Geoffrey Hunter

  • George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

    Menas Kafatos

  • Pierre et Marie Curie Université, Paris, France

    Jean-Pierre Vigier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier

  • Editors: Richard L. Amoroso, Geoffrey Hunter, Menas Kafatos, Jean-Pierre Vigier

  • Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48052-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0885-6Published: 31 October 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-3936-8Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48052-2Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0168-1222

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 540

  • Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

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