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THE Guthrie lecturers before the Physical Society have in the past covered a wide range of knowledge in physical science, but they have very definitely concerned themselves with concrete problems. Atomic nuclei, electrodeless discharges, the properties of the elements under high pressures, the scattering of X-rays in gases, positive rays these are typical of the subjects which have been discussed and illuminated by distinguished lecturers in past years. It has been left to Prof. Max Planck to treat with wide scholarship and philosophic insight one of the most difficult of the problems known to the thought of any age that of the meaning and validity of the concept of causality.
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FERGUSON, A. Prof. Planck and the Principle of Causality in Physics. Nature 130, 45–48 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130045a0
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