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The future of physics

SEP 01, 1970
Many physicists may turn to molecular biophysics, pulsar astronomy and the problems of environmental pollution, just as some turned to radioastronomy and computer technology 25 years ago.
Freeman J. Dyson

What sort of physics should we be doing between now and the end of the century? This is a question I thought about recently when we at Princeton dedicated a new physics building; what would the people now in the building have a chance to do during their working lives?

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References

  1. 1. E. L. Hess, “Origins of Molecular Biology,” Science 168, 664 (1970).https://doi.org/SCIEAS

  2. 2. J. D. Watson, The Double Helix, Atheneum, New York, 1968.

  3. 3. G. Cocconi in Evolution of Particle Physics (M. Conversi, ed.), Academic, New York (1970).

  4. 4. N. G. Anderson, J. L. Liverman, Scientific Research, May 1968, page 37.

  5. 5. W. G. Spohn, Jr, Notices Am. Math. Soc. 16, 890 (1969).

More about the authors

Freeman J. Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study.

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