Two Cultures: Essays in Honour of David Speiser

Birkhäuser, 2005 8vo (23,5 cm), VIII, 210 pp. Laminated boards. The extraordinary range of cultural interests of renowned physicist David Speiser--including the sciences, art, architecture, music, and history of science--has inspired generations of later scientists to look beyond the boundaries of their own disciplines. In this book, seventeen scholars from various fields pay tribute to his multifaceted career, addressing topics as varied as music theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors include: Alessio Ageno, Jean-Pierre Antoine, Sandro Caparrini, Frans A. Cerulus, Sidney D. Drell, David Ritz Finkelstein, Laszlo Grenacs, Donal Hurley, Giuseppe La Rocca, Siegmund Levarie, Bernd Lindemann, Giulio Maltese, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, Orietta Pedemonte, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo, Michael Vandyck, Piero Villaggio, and Kim Williams.