THE QUANTUM POSTULATE AND THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMIC THEORY

.BOHR, Niels

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. Nobel Laureate .In :Nature, Volume 121, pages 580-590, 1928. [Bohrs famous Complimentarity lecture]. London: Macmillan, 1928. Very Good+ entire Volume 121 of Nature, January - June 1928 from the Royal Geographical Society Library with its bookplate on the front paste down. Library notice rear paste down. No library pocket. Green buckram binding gilt lettering spine. Cover, spine edge wear. 4to. lxii, 1044 pp.Hardcover. Very Good+.First publication in English of Bohrs famous complementarity lecture on the state of quantum mechanics presented at the Volta Conference at Lake Como, Italy (1927). At the time Heisenbergs matrix (particle) mechanics and Shrödingers wave mechanics were competing to be the accepted view of quantum theory. Triggered by discussions with Heisenberg over Heisenbergs uncertainty principle paper, Bohr formulated hiscomplementarity principle, that both sides were right and matter has both wave and particle properties. Though Heisenberg formulated his uncertainty principle from a particle point of view, the same relationship holds as groups of waves travel. In this paper Bohr uses it as the key example of complementarity and argues that both approaches allow equally valid calculations of quantum behavior. (See Kragh, Quantum Generations, pp 206-210; DSB, pp 249-250.) Niels Bohr (1885-1962) was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for His services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them. //// DW ////Ask for pictures. //// DW ////Ask for pictures.

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• Title: THE QUANTUM POSTULATE AND THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMIC THEORY
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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