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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 170
Progress in Modern Physics
Proceedings of the Yukawa-Tomonaga Centennial Symposium
Edited by R. Ikeda, Y. Kanada-En'yo, T. Kugo, M. Sasaki and N. Sasao
January 23rd, 2007 and March 31st, 2006 were the centennial of the
births of Hideki Yukawa and Sin-itiro Tomonaga, respectively.
Yukawa Institute and Physics Department, Kyoto University,
organized ``The Yukawa-Tomonaga Centennial Symposium:
Progress in Modern Physics", which was held December 11-13, 2006, at
Kyoto University, to review the developments in modern physics pioneered
by them, discuss the present status of various areas in physics, and
provide a future perspective on fundamental physics in the 21st century.
This volume is for Proceedings of the Symposium.
Thirteen lectures were presented by distinguished physicists (including
four Nobel prize laureates) who all contributed profoundly to progress
in physics during the 20th century; they are, in the order of presentations,
David J. Gross,
Masatoshi Koshiba,
B. Lee Roberts,
Gerard 't Hooft,
Valery A. Rubakov,
Humitaka Sato,
Anthony J. Leggett,
Howard Georgi,
Toshimitsu Yamazaki,
Wolfram Weise,
Norio Kawakami,
Nobuhiro Go and John H. Schwarz.
This volume contains the thirteen papers written for these lectures
and also includes a contribution from Professor Y. Nambu,
who was not able to attend the symposium for having caught cold
but gave the lecture that he had prepared for the Symposium two
weeks later at Yukawa Institute.
Transcribed records of the discussions given
at the end of each lecture are also included.
Aside from the importance as historical records, these papers are
very interesting since they contain much insights into the
development and present status of modern physics as well as
the deep perspectives for the future directions by the lecturers
who themselves made creative and decisive contributions to each field.
This volume will undoubtedly give inspirations not only to
young generations who will create next developments, but also to
the current active researchers.
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