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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