Book/Printed Material Traditions and transformations in the history of quantum physics : HQ-3, Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, Berlin, June 28-July 2, 2010
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- Traditions and transformations in the history of quantum physics : HQ-3, Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, Berlin, June 28-July 2, 2010
Names
- International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics 2010 : Berlin, Germany)
- Katzir, Shaul, editor.
- Lehner, Christoph, 1962- editor.
- Renn, Jürgen, 1956- editor.
Created / Published
- [Berlin] : Edition Open Access, 2013.
Contents
- From classical to quantum physics. Theoretical challenges by experimental physics : radiation and its interaction with matter / Shaul Katzir. Challenging the boundaries between classical and quantum physics : the case of optical dispersion / Marta Jordi Taltavull. Putting the quantum to work : Otto Sackur's pioneering exploits in the quantum theory of gases / Massimiliano Badino and Bretislav Friedrich -- Quantum mechanics in the making. The concepts of light atoms and light molecules and their final interpretation / Dieter Fick and Horst Kant. Early interactions of quantum statistics and quantum mechanics / Daniela Monaldi. Pourparlers for amalgamation : some early sources of quantum gravity research / Dean Rickles -- Extending the framework of quantum physics. Superposing dynamos and electrons : electrical engineering and quantum physics in the case of Nishina Yoshio / Kenji Ito. The origins of Maria Göppert's dissertation on two-photon quantum transitions at Göttingen's Institutes of Physics, 1920-1933 / Barry R. Masters. An act of creation : the Meitner-Frisch interpretation of nuclear fission / Roger H. Stuewer -- The challenges of quantum field theory. Tsung-Sui Chang's contribution to the quantization of constrained Hamiltonian systems / Xiaodong Yin, Zhongyuan Zhu, Donald C. Salisbury. Feynman's struggle and Dyson's surprise : the development and early application of a new means of representation / Adrian Wüthrich -- Traditions and debates in recent quantum physics. Orthodoxies on the interpretation of quantum theory : the case of the consistent history approach / Olival Freire. From do-it-yourself quantum mechanics to nanotechnology? : the history of experimental semiconductor physics, 1970-2000 / Christian Kehrt.
Headings
- - Quantum theory--History--Congresses
Notes
- - Includes bibliographical references.
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- 1 electronic resource (xi, 340 pages )
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- QC173.98
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- 2019667316
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- International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics
- Katzir, Shaul
- Lehner, Christoph
- Renn, Jürgen