Mangalore, March 6: World famous physicist-philosopher Dr Hans Peter Durr will be delivering three lectures in Dakshina Kannada from March 11 to 13.
Revealing this to media persons at a press meet here on Tuesday Dr B M Hegde, Former Vice Chancellor of Manipal University, said the rare combination of physicist and philosopher makes his lectures of interest not only to students and faculty of sciences and humanities, but also to the general public.
He has found strong similarities between most modern view of matter as understood by physicists and most ancient one as understood by India's philosophers, Dr Hegde said.
Dr Durr will be speaking on March 11 at 5 p.m. at Shobhavan, Alva's Education Foundation addressing general public, students and teachers of physics. On March 12 at 11 a.m. Dr Durr will speak to students and faculty at NITK but others are welcome. He will deliver a general talk on “New World View of Physics” on March 13 at 5 p.m. in Corporation Bank auditorium, H.O Pandeshwar. There will be an hour long question and answer session after each lecture.
Dr Durr, who is the former Executive Director of Max Planck Institute, Germany, specializes in Nuclear and Quantum physics. He is the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 1987 for founding the global Challenges Network, a world peace initiative to counter the Star Wars program and achieve social justice and peace. Dr Durr also holds an honorary doctorate in Philosophy.
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