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PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY Highlightshighlights Physics Catalogue 2019 World Scientific Connecting Great Minds 2 019 PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY HighlightsHighlights Physics Catalogue 2019 page 4 page 5 page 5 page 9 by Niloy K Dutta & Xiang Zhang by Kenneth R Lang by Amir Levinson by Yin Yeh (UC Davis) & (University of Connecticut, USA) (Tufts University, USA) (Tel Aviv University, Israel) V V Krishnan (California State University, Fresno, USA & UC Davis) page 9 page 11 page 12 page 12 by Choonkyu Lee by John Dirk Walecka by Michela Petrini (University Pierre edited by Mo-Lin Ge (Chern Institute of (Seoul National University, South (College of William and and Marie Curie, France), Mathematics, China), Antti J Niemi (Stockholm Korea) & Hyunsoo Min (University of Mary, USA) Gianfranco Pradisi (University of Rome University, Sweden & Uppsala University, Seoul, South Korea) Tor Vergata, Italy) & Alberto Zaffaroni Sweden), KK Phua (NTU, Singapore) & Leon A (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Takhtajan (Stony Brook University, USA & Euler International Mathematical Institute, Russia) page 16 page 16 page 17 page 20 by Francesco Simoni by Amnon Aharony (Ben Gurion University by Hagen Kleinert by Lee G Pondrom (Università Politecnica delle of the Negev, Israel & Tel Aviv University, (Freie Universität Berlin, (University of Wisconsin- Marche, Italy) Israel) & Ora Entin-Wohlman (Ben Gurion Germany) Madison, USA) University of the Negev, Israel & Tel Aviv University, Israel) page 26 page 27 page 28 page 32 edited by Bryan Gin-ge Chen (Leiden University, edited by Andreas Fring by Martinus Veltman (University of by Jacob Dunningham Netherlands), David Derbes (University of (City, University of London, UK) Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA & NIKHEF, (University of Sussex, UK) & Chicago, USA), David Griffiths (Reed College, & Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Vlatko Vedral (Oxford) USA), Brian Hill (Saint Mary's College of for Theoretical Physics, Canada) California, USA), Richard Sohn (Kronos, Inc., Lowell, USA) & Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard) About World Scientific Publishing World Scientific Publishing is a leading independent c o n t e n t s publisher of books and journals for the scholarly, research, professional and educational communities. 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