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Melvin Schwartz
(2 Nov 1932 - 28 Aug 2006)
American physicist and entrepreneur who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research with the neutrino beam method and the discovery of the muon neutrino.
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Science Quotes by Melvin Schwartz (2 quotes)
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates. Indeed, the beauty and elegance of the physical laws themselves are only apparent when expressed in the appropriate mathematical framework.
— Melvin Schwartz
In Principles of Electrodynamics (1972, 1987), 105.
The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
— Melvin Schwartz
In Principles of Electrodynamics (1972, 1987), 105.
See also:
- 2 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Schwartz's birth.
- Principles of Electrodynamics, by Melvin Schwartz. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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