A Century of Ideas

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A Century of Ideas is written by Burra Sidharth and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048116805 (ISBN 10) and 9789048116805 (ISBN 13).

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, mostly on Physics and Astronomy. The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question. The lectures are aimed at a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.