A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Abdus Salam - An autobiography
Emmy Noether - The woman responsible for connecting symmetry with physical laws
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Gerard 't Hooft - Recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics for work in electroweak interactions
Jack Steinberger - An illustrated interview with Jack Steinberger, a nobel prize winner of 1988. His autograph.
Meta Description: [ Heidi Toft's 70 minutes with Jack
Steinberger, Nobel Prize in physics in 1988 ]
Julian Schwinger - A biography of one of the three men who created quantum electrodynamics
Meta Description: [ Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) ]
Julian Schwinger - A biography from the Nobel prize museum
Lev Landau - The Russian physicist considered one of the top theorists of all time
Meta Description: [ Lev Landau (1908-1968) ]
Murray Gell-Mann - A short biography from the Nobel prize museum
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Includes a brief biography and a copy of his Nobel lecture.
Professor Revaz R. Dogonadze (1931-1985) - Professor Revaz R. Dogonadze (1931-1985) was one of founders of Quantum Electrochemistry.
Sheldon Glashow - A short autobiography
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - A short biography
Steven Weinberg - A short autobiography
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 - Awarded jointly to Arthur Holly Compton for his discovery of the effect named after him, and to Charles Thomson Rees Wilson for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 - Awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 - Awarded to Wolfgang Pauli for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle.
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1918 - Awarded to Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta. Includes a short biography and a transcript of the award speech.
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1929 - Awarded to Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
Theoretical Physics - Frank Steiner's Group - Homepage of Frank Steiner's Group, Abteilung Theoretische Physik, Universität Ulm, Research Topics are Quantum Chaos and Cosmology.
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Wave Mechanics: Louis de Broglie - A biography of prince Louis de Broglie, and an overview of his contribution to wave machanics, including an original paper.
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