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The Best Books on: The Golden Age of Quantum Physics
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Dec 4, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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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
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer
As a child he collected rocks, wrote poetry and studied French literature. Never weighing more than 130 pounds, throughout his life he was a “tall and…
Jul 23, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Einstein’s Paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)
About six weeks before he submitted his doctoral thesis at the University of Zürich in 1905, Einstein on March 18th submitted the paper Über einen die…
Jul 16, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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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
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Jørgen Veisdal
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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
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
By the time of his death in 1957 at the modest age of 53, the Hungarian polymath had not only revolutionized several subfields of mathematics and…
May 19, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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When Feynman met Dirac
“I am Feynman.”
Apr 5, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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