Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics

Synopsis: This is a recording of Richard Feynman giving the first of the Paul Dirac Memorial Lectures at St John’s College Cambridge in 1986. Paul Dirac, one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century, was a professor at St John’s and held the chair that once was occupied by Isaac Newton. When he died in 1984, his college, endowed an annual lecture to be held in Cambridge in his memory. The first of these lectures was given by Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg. Dirac was perhaps most famous for his prediction of antimatter, and in his lecture Feynman discusses the physical reality underlying Dirac’s prediction. A book accompanies this tape which contains the transparencies used in the lecture (in Feynman’s own handwriting), and pieces by Lawrence Krauss, John Gribbon, and Ralph Leighton.

See also the companion lecture by Steven Weinberg TOWARDS THE FINAL LAWS OF PHYSICS.
Language: English
Year of release: 2000
Year of production: 1986
Documentation: The print version of this lecture is available from Cambridge University Press.
Subjects: Physics
Keywords: anti-matter; particle physics

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Notes: A collection of video and audio material about the life and work of Nobel Prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a number of videos about the Tuva republic in the far south of Siberia. Sale on CD, video and DVD.

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