Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

336 Pages·2013·2.2 MB·English

by  John Gribbin

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Erwin Schrödinger
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INTRODUCTION
Erwin Schrödinger
and the Quantum
Revolution
John Gribbin
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SCHRÖDINGER AND THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION
Copyright © 2013 by Mary and John Gribbin.All rights reserved
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Cover Image: Professor Erwin Schrödinger © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Gribbin,John,date.
Erwin Schrödinger and the quantum revolution / John Gribbin.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-29926-5 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-33411-9 (ebk);
ISBN 978-1-118-33188-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-33519-2 (ebk)
1. Schrödinger,Erwin,1887-1961. 2. Physicists—Austria—Biography.
3. Physics—Philosophy. 4. Quantum theory. I. Title.
QC16.S265G75 2013
530.092—dc23
[B]
2013025742
Printed in the United States of America
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INTRODUCTION
For Terry Rudolph,
even though he won’t read it
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INTRODUCTION
We must not forget that pictures and models finally have no
other purpose than to serve as a framework for all the
observations that are in principle possible.
ERWINSCHRÖDINGER,Frankfurt,December1928
His private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like
ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most
lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental,
kind and generous,and he had a most perfect and efficient
brain.
MAXBORN,My Life(1978)
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