Arne Schirrmacher. Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen: David Hilbert, Max Born, and Peter Debye in Context, 1900–1926. ix + 120 pp., figs., app. Cham: Springer Nature, 2019. €51.99 (paper); ISBN 9783030227272. E-book available.

Isis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-624
Author(s):  
Rita Meyer-Spasche
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
Max Born ◽  
Peter Debye

Quantum Physics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Seth
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Atomic Spectroscopy ◽  
Irreversible Processes ◽  
Wave Mechanics ◽  
Matrix Mechanics ◽  
Max Born ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
History Of Quantum Physics

This article discusses the history of quantum physics, beginning with an analysis of the process through which a community of quantum theorists and experimentalists came into being. In particular, it traces the roots and fruits of Max Planck’s papers in irreversible processes in nature. It proceeds by exploring the origin and subsequent development of Niels Bohr’s so-called ‘planetary model’ of the atom, focusing on the extension of the model by Arnold Sommerfeld and members of his school as well to Bohr’s use of his principles of correspondence and adiabatic invariance. It also considers the post-war years, as the problems of atomic spectroscopy sparked the development of new methodological approaches to quantum theory. Finally, it offers a history of the two distinct new forms of quantum mechanics put forward in the mid-1920s: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan’s matrix mechanics, and Erwin Schrödinger’s wave mechanics.

‘Dialectical materialism and modern physics’, an unpublished text by Max Born

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olival Freire ◽  
Christoph Lehner
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Scientific Methodology ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Unpublished Manuscript ◽  
Perfect Agreement ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Max Born ◽  
Léon Rosenfeld ◽  
Modern Physics

A previously unpublished manuscript by the physicist Max Born, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, is presented. The manuscript was addressed to Born's colleague Léon Rosenfeld and criticized his attempt to show that Niels Bohr's doctrine of complementarity was an example of dialectical materialism and as such in perfect agreement with Marxist philosophy. Besides illustrating the deep political divisions among defenders of the ‘Copenhagen spirit’ in quantum physics, the manuscript is also a valuable source illuminating Max Born's philosophical position about scientific methodology and epistemology.

Quantum Physics

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair I. M. Rae
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Le Bellac
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics

Nonlocality in quantum physics

1984 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
pp. 599 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.I. Spasskii ◽  
A.V. Moskovskii
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics
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