Leon Lederman

Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia
Pritzker Professor of Science (BCPS Department, IIT)

 The Role of Symmetry in Physics


Abstract

I will select a few examples of how the concept of symmetry, embellished by the Noether theorem, influences physics at its deepest level. Since the audience is mathematical, I will stress experimental anecdotes, which established this.
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