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On Sale: Jan 22, 1988
Page Count: 250 pages
Publisher: Avalon Travel
ISBN-13: 9780201156867

The Santa Fe Institute, as key element in its founding activities, sponsored two workshops on ‘Emerging Syntheses in Science.’ There was unanimous agreement among the participants that Professor Gell-Mann’s keynote address and the ensuing talks were of such high quality and general interest that it would be highly desirable to publish these for broader distribution.

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David Pines

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David Pines is research professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made pioneering contributions to an understanding of many-body problems in condensed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. Editor of Perseus' Frontiers in Physics series and former editor of American Physical Society's Reviews of Modern Physics, Dr. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pines has received a number of awards, including the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory; the P.A.M. Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics; and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.

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