Heisenberg

John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)

"There is general phenomenon, affecting mathematics and physics, of evolutionary elegantizing camouflage"

Jan 17 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Best Books on: The Golden Age of Quantum Physics

Dec 4, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)

The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and…

Sep 3, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Center of the Mathematical Universe

Around the same time as Kronecker obtained his doctorate, Gauss’ star pupil Riemann also transferred to Berlin, where he stayed for two years before…

Aug 8, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

When Heisenberg met Einstein (1926-27)

A mere 24 years old, Werner Heisenberg (1901-76) in 1925 developed a treatment of electron behavior based solely on directly observable quantities such…

Jun 11, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Bohr-Einstein Debate (1927)

The year is 1905. Newly graduated with a Ph.D. in physics, Albert Einstein publishes the paper Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes…

May 25, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

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