Overview
- Renowned scientists, including a 2012 Physics Nobel laureate, present their view on Bohr’s foundational contributions and his legacy in present-day quantum physics
- Relates Bohr’s seminal work both to that of Einstein, Schrödinger, Bell and Feynman and to that of Kant
- Based on educational lectures given at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris for the centennial of Bohr's atom model
Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 68)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This fourteenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series is devoted to Niels Bohr, his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory and their continuing importance today. This book contains the following chapters: - Tomas Bohr, Keeping Things Open; - Olivier Darrigol, Bohr's Trilogy of 1913; -John Heilbron, The Mind that Created the Bohr Atom; - Serge Haroche & Jean-Michel Raimond, Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED; - Alain Aspect, From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: a New Quantum Revolution?; - Antoine Browaeys, Interacting Cold Rydberg Atoms: A Toy Many-Body System; - Michel Bitbol & Stefano Osnaghi, Bohr´s Complementarity and Kant´s Epistemology. Dating from their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience these seven chapters are of high educational value.
This volume is of general interest to physicists, mathematicians and historians.
Reviews
“The book under review is the product of a Paris seminar devoted to the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the publication in 1913 of Niels Bohr’s three seminal papers on what is known nowadays as the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom. It collects several essays presented in this seminar that are quite accessible to a broad section of readers, either mathematicians, physicists or philosophers.” (Felipe Zaldivar, MAA Reviews, maa.org, August, 2016)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Niels Bohr, 1913-2013
Book Subtitle: Poincaré Seminar 2013
Editors: Olivier Darrigol, Bertrand Duplantier, Jean-Michel Raimond, Vincent Rivasseau
Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14316-3
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14315-6Published: 15 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79196-8Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14316-3Published: 07 April 2016
Series ISSN: 1544-9998
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematical Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics