Sidharth B.G. (ed.) A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

Amsterdam: Springer, 2008. — 209 p.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, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.
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, and accessible to a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.Fifty Years of Cosmology
Science as an Adventure
The Early Universe
The Long-Term Future of Particle Accelerators
Energy and Evolution
The Wonders of Pulsars
Is the Future Given? Changes in Our Description of Nature
Bubbles, Foams and Other Fragile Objects
Beyond the Standard Model: Will it be the Theory of Everything?
Living Joyfully with Complexity in Chemistry and Culture
A Confrontation with Infinity
The Creative and Unpredictable Interaction of Science and Technology
The Link Between Neutrino Masses and Proton Decay in Supersymmetric Unification
The Nature of Discovery in Physics
Symmetry in the Micro World – A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner.