From data to quanta : Niels Bohr's vision of physics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perović, Slobodan (Philosopher and historian of science) (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries. From laboratory to theory ; from classical experiments to quantum theory
  • Bohr's vision in practice : the old quantum theory. Spectral lines, quantum states, and a master model of the atom ; The correspondence principle as an intermediary hypothesis ; Reception ; The scientific moderator
  • Toward Quantum mechanics. Quantum corpuscles, quantum waves, and the experiments ; The uncertainty principle as an intermediary hypothesis ; Metaphysical principles and heuristic rules ; New formalisms and Bohr's atom
  • Complementarity established and applied
  • Aftermath. Bohr and the "Copenhagen orthodoxy" ; Bohr's response to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument ; The mature Bohr and the rise of slick theory and theoreticians.