Abstract:
The Nineteenth Matscience Anniversary Symposium was held at Matscience from 17th to 21st January 1981 with the theme, 'A biographical approach to Modern Physics
- Planck to Salam, the Quantum to the Quark'. The symposium was inaugurated by
His Excellency Mr. Sadiq Ali, the Governor of Tamil Nadu, The portraits of Sin-Itiro Tomonoga and Hideki Yukawa were unveiled
by Mr.Masanari Ozaki, Consul General of Japan, Madras and the portaits of Julian Schwinger and Emilio Segre were unveiled by
Mr. Christopher L. Sholes, Director, USICA, Madras. The present report contains a collection of articles by some of the participants of the symposium who discussed the historical perspectives of physics from the time of Planck at the beginning of this century to the present era of Salam through the contributions of the various outstanding scientists who developed modern physics.
