World Scientific Newsletter August 2011 Page 1

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World Scientific proudly announces the publication of a new book by Nobel laureate

Professor Philip W. Anderson (Princeton) in July 2011

This unique book presents the best of Prof. Anderson's non-technical writings. As an emeritus professor at Princeton University, he remains active in research.His colleagues have made him one of the two physi-cists most often cited in the scientific literature, for several decades.

More and Different

Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon

"This collection of his essays is guaranteed to instruct, amuse and in some cases annoy readers irrespective of their specialist backgrounds."

Anthony Leggett, Nobel laureate

"Phil Anderson has made many wonderful contributions to physics, often illustrating his favorite theme of how more is different. I am sure readers of diverse interests will enjoy this book and learn much from it."

Edward Witten, Fields Medallist

"Philip Anderson is not only the most influential and original scientist in the second half of the 20th century in condensed matter physics, but also happens to be one who thinks deeply and broadly, and writes beautifully and vividly."

T. V. Ramakrishnan, FRS

Recent book reviews from Physics Today (USA),
the most important international magazine for physicists

BCS: 50 YEARS
edited by Leon N Cooper, Nobel laureate & Dmitri Feldman (Brown University)

World Scientific is pleased to be associated with the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov. Professors Geim and Novoselov were jointly awarded the Prize for their ground-breaking work on graphene and other free-standing two-dimensional crystals.

"The editors deserve praise for the selection of topics and for enlisting a distinguished set of authors ... In this book, the science and the associated personalities are illustrated by those personally involved in the development of superconducti-vity theory, culminating in the celebrated BCS theory and its important field-theoretic elabo-rations ... BCS: 50 Years is a successful attempt to capture the history of the development of superconductivity theory and its continuing impact. Any person curious about superconductivity will find something in this book to enjoy." (July 2011)

Malcolm Beasley
Stanford University

ABERRATION-CORRECTED IMAGING IN TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY:An Introduction
by Rolf Erni , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Switzerland

"Aberration-Corrected Imaging in Transmission Electron Microscopy is impeccably edited. The schematic diagrams are accurate and infor-mative. The equations presented are necessary and sufficient ... Practical aberration-corrected instruments have been a long time coming but are still very expensive. Researchers who are fortunate enough to acquire one should also acquire a copy of this book." (July 2011)

Lew Rabenberg
University of Texas at Austin

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