Overview
- Sheds light on the institutional network that supported the rise of quantum mechanics
- Illustrates the local character of knowledge production
- Portrays the quantum pioneers from the perspective of research schools
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology (BRIEFSHIST)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
The book is part of a series of publications on the early network of quantum physics. These works emerged from an expansive study on the quantum revolution as a major transformation of physical knowledge undertaken by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Fritz Haber Institute (2006–2012). For more on this project, see the dedicated Feature Story, The Networks of Early Quantum Theory, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-story/networks-early-quantum-theory
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Eckert is a German physicist and science historian at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich, graduating in 1976, and was awarded a doctorate in theoretical physics (models for the visual processes of invertebrates) at the University of Bayreuth in 1979. From 1981 to 1988, he worked at the Deutsches Museum, and from 1989 to 1995 was a lecturer at the Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag. From 1995 to 2000, he was a research associate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and since 2001 has been working at the Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science at the Deutsches Museum. Eckert published a biography of Arnold Sommerfeld (and organized an exhibition about him at the Deutsches Museum), wrote a book about the Sommerfeld School of Atomic Physics and about the history of fluid mechanics, especially the school of Ludwig Prandtl, and dealt, among other things, with the history of solid-state physics and nuclear energy policy in Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich
Book Subtitle: Emergence of Arnold Sommerfeld’s Quantum School
Authors: Michael Eckert
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62034-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62033-2Published: 16 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62034-9Published: 15 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-4564
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4572
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 86
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics