Table of Contents

Abstraction in Modern Science.- Yoshio Nishina, the Pioneer of Modern Physics in Japan.- Tomonaga Sin-Itiro : A Memorial – Two Shakers of Physics.- The Discovery of the Parity Violation in Weak Interactions and Its Recent Developments.- Origins of Life.- The Computing Machines in the Future.- Niels Bohr and the Development of Concepts in Nuclear Physics.- From X-Ray to Electron Spectroscopy.- Theoretical Paradigms for the Sciences of Complexity.- Some Ideas on the Aesthetics of Science.- Particle Physics and Cosmology: New Aspects of an Old Relationship.- The Experimental Discovery of CP Violation.- The Nanometer Age: Challenge and Change.- From Rice to Snow.- SCIENCE—A Round Peg in a Square World.- Are We Really Made of Quarks?.- Very Elementary Particle Physics.- The Klein-Nishina Formula&Quantum Electrodynamics.