广泛涉及磁力、湍流和夸克等被认为是物质的建筑块料的千差万别的现象,并构成今年(1982年——译注)诺贝尔物理学奖获奖项目的技术“关于相变的临界现象”的研究者,美国纽约州依萨卡市康奈尔大学物理学教授肯尼思·威尔逊已得到诺贝尔奖委员会的提名。威尔逊的工作已经为物理学家解决了乍看起来十分不相关的一揽子问题。临界现象这个概念开始于一个多世纪前十九世纪六十年代英国贝尔法斯特皇家学院托马斯·安德鲁斯所进行的一系列经典实验。安德鲁斯对在不同体积、压力与温度条件下二氧化碳气体转变为液体状态(或“相”)的研究饶有兴趣。他考察了在不同温 A wide-ranging study of the vast diversity of building blocks that are considered material, such as magnetism, turbulence, and quarks, and the technology “Critical Phenomenon of Phase Transition” that won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year (1982) Kenneth Wilson, a professor of physics at Cornell University in Byxica, New York, USA, has been nominated by the Nobel Prize Committee. Wilson’s work has solved for physicists a package that at first glance appears to be very irrelevant. The notion of a critical phenomenon began with a series of classic experiments conducted by Thomas Andrews of the Royal Belfast College in England more than a century ago in the 1860s. Andrews is interested in the study of how carbon dioxide gas is converted to a liquid state (or “phase”) at different volumes, pressures and temperatures. He inspected at different temperatures