On Modern Physics

The book is an English translation of an Italian translation of original talks in German, or of the French translation of the German original (one case, the Born lecture)... The public lectures were given at three different Rencontres internationales de Genève in 1952, 1957 and 1958, as follows [chronological order]: \* Erwin Schrödinger, 1952, delivered in German, published in original German plus a French summary, as 'Unsere Vorstellung von der Materie', in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 7, L'Homme devant la science, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1952, pp. 31-54. \* Pierre Auger, 1952, delivered and published in French as 'Les méthodes et les limites de la connaissance scientifique.' at the same conference/same publication as Schrödinger's, pp.55-80. \* Max Born, 1957, delivered in German, published in French translation as 'Réflexions d’un homme de science européen' in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 12, L'Europe et le Monde d'Aujourd'hui, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1958, pp. 29-48; original German appeared as 'Europäische Betrachtungen eines Naturforschers', Universitas, 13/3, S.225-240, Stuttgart 1958 \* Werner Heisenberg, 1958, delivered in German, published in original German plus a French summary, as 'Die Plancksche Entdeckung und die philosophischen' in Rencontres internationales de Genève vol. 13, L'Homme et l'atome, Les Éditions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1958, pp. 37-60; debate pp. 189-203. The electronic versions of all Rencontres are publicly available as text pdfs (not facsimiles): Vol. 7, 1952, http://www.rencontres-int-geneve.ch/volumes\_pdf/rig07.pdf Vol. 12, 1957-8, http://www.rencontres-int-geneve.ch/volumes\_pdf/rig12.pdf Vol. 13, http://www.rencontres-int-geneve.ch/volumes\_pdf/rig13.pdf Overview of volumes available on the page of the Archive for 1950-1959, http://www.rencontres-int-geneve.ch/bibliotheque/articles/1950-1959.html Open Library page for the Italian translation, 1959: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17099643W/Discussione\_sulla\_fisica\_moderna Open Library page for the English editions 1961, 1962: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16037217W/On\_Modern\_Physics W. Heisenberg Plank's discovery and the philosophical problems of atomic physics 9 Discussion of the lecture of Werner Heisenberg 29 E. Schrödinger Our image of matter 45 M. Born Reflections of a European man of science 67 P. Auger The methods and limits of scientific knowledge 93