From data to quanta : Niels Bohr's vision of physics /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2021.
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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.