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Science Colloquium by Prof. Gershon Kurizki
Speaker : Prof. Gershon Kurizki, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science / Israel
Title : The Observer and the World: Does Science describe the Universe?
Date : May 13, 2019, Monday
Time : 14:30
Cookie&Tea : 14:15, SNA A52
Place : SNA A52
Abstract:
A personalized tour through physics and culture history will present arguments that science does not portray an “objective” reality.
The 200-year old thermodynamics and the 100-year old quantum physics bring this point of view to the fore.
Short CV:
Born in 1952
M.Sc.in Physics, Technion, 1979
Ph.D in Physics, Univ. of New Mexico, 1983
Joined the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in 1985
Tenured Professor at WIS since 1991
The G.W. Dunne Chair in Quantum Optics at WIS since 1998