20世纪是人类科学史上迄今最为辉煌的世纪,而物理科学乃是本世纪科学星空中最为耀眼的星团。20世纪物理学的光彩,不仅在于这个领域中理论上与实验技术上取得的一系列重大突破,也在于这个历史时期涌现出了一批具有超群洞见与非凡魅力的卓越学者(同样耀眼的生命科学,在这后一点上就略曼逊色),如 The 20th century is the most glorious century to date in the history of human science, and the physical science is the most dazzling star cluster in the scientific sky of this century. The luster of physics in the twentieth century not only lies in a series of major breakthroughs in theory and experiment in this field, but also in this historical period emerged a group of outstanding scholars with extraordinary insight and extraordinary charm (equally dazzling life sciences , In the latter point on the slightly Manson color), such as