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The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science, 14
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Many books have been written on the history of quantum mechanics.
So far as I am aware, however, this is the first to incorporate the
results of the large amount of detailed scholarly research
completed by professional historians of physics over the past
fifteen years. It is also, I believe, the first since Max Jammer's
pioneering study of fifteen years ago to attempt a genuine
'history' as opposed to a mere technical report or popular or
semi-popular account. My aims in making this attempt have been to
satisfy the needs of historians of science and, more especially, to
promote a serious interest in the history of science among
phYSicists and physics students. Since the creation of quantum
mechanics was inevitably a technical process conducted through the
medium of technical language it has been impossible to avoid the
introduction of a large amount of such language. Some acquaintance
with quantum mechanics, corresponding to that obtained through an
undergraduate physics course, has accordingly been assumed. I have
tried to ensure, however, that such an acquaintance should be
sufficient as well as necessary, and even someone with only the
most basic grounding in physics should be able with judicious skip
ping, to get through the book. The technical details are essential
to the dialogue, but the plot proceeds and can, I hope, be
understood on a non technical level."
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