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HQ-1 Talks
The Way to Quantum Theory
Old Quantum Theory
The Crisis of the Old Quantum Theory
Matrix Mechanics
The Reception of Quantum Theory
Wave Mechanics
Quantum Theory and Chemistry
Philosophical Background
Keynote Talk
Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics after WW II
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Talks at the HQ-1 Conference
The Way to Quantum Theory
Badino, Massimiliano:
The Odd Couple: Boltzmann, Planck, and the Application of Statistics to Physics
Norton, John:
Einstein's Miraculous Argument of 1905
Gianetto, Enrico:
Poincaré's Electromagnetic Quantum Mechanics
Old Quantum Theory
Schirrmacher, Arne:
Who Did Really Believe in Bohr's Atom? The "Ultramikroskopie des Atominneren" of Peter Debye and the Art of Reinterpreting Experimental Results
Jordi, Marta; Perez, Enric:
The Ehrenfest Adiabatic Hypothesis and the Old Quantum Theory, Before Bohr
Rynasiewicz, Robert:
On 'The[?] So-Called Correspondence Principle'
Sauer, Tilman:
Probing Concepts, Old and New: Einstein's Interpretation of Superconductivity
Discussion
The Crisis of the Old Quantum Theory
Gearhart, Clayton:
Quantum Quandaries: Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Otto Stern, and the Specific Heat of Hydrogen
Friedrich, Bretislav:
How a Bad Cigar Assisted at the Birth of Quantum Mechanics
Cassidy, David:
Examining the Crisis in Quantum Theory: Its Origins, Nature, Extent, and Impact
Giulini, Dominico:
Electron Spin or "klassisch nicht beschreibbare Art von Zweideutigkeit"
Discussion
Matrix Mechanics
Kojevnikov, Alexei:
"Knabenphysik": The birth of quantum mechanics from a postdoctoral viewpoint
Duncan, Anthony; Janssen, Michel:
Pascual Jordan's Resolution of the Conundrum of the Wave-Particle Duality of Light
Perovic, Slobodan:
Why Were Logically Distinct Theories Deemed Equivalent in Early Quantum Mechanics?
Discussion
The Reception of Quantum Theory
Hu, Danian; Zhang, Baichun:
The Odd Couple: Boltzmann, Planck, and the Application of Statistics to Physics
Navarro, Jaume:
Planck and de Broglie in the Thomson Family
Discussion
Wave Mechanics
Martins, Roberto de Andrade:
Louis de Broglie's Struggle with the Wave-Particle Dualism, 1923-1925
Monaldi, Daniela:
The First Steps (and Stumbles) of Bose-Einstein Condensation: Uhlenbeck's Criticism of Einstein's Prediction and its Refutation
Lehner, Christoph; Renn, Jürgen:
Schrödinger's Way to Wave Mechanics
Discussion
Quantum Theory and Chemistry
Pallo, Gabor:
Early Impact of Quantum Physics on Chemistry: George Hevesy's Work on Rare Earth Elements and Michael Polanyi's Absorption Theory
Park, Buhm Soon:
Computational Imperatives in Quantum Chemistry
Discussion
Philosophical Background
Engler, Olaf:
Scientific Philosophy and Quantum Physics
Stöltzner, Michael:
Vienna Indeterminism and the Problems of Quantum Mechanical Causality
Sigurdsson, Skuli:
Quantum Mechanics and a New Thought Style: Die Naturwissenschaften in the Interwar Years
Discussion
Keynote Talk
Stuewer, Roger:
Einstein's Revolutionary Quantum Hypothesis
Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics
Scholz, Erhard:
H. Weyl Entering the "New" Quantum Mechanics Discourse
Schneider, Martina:
A Service for the Physicists? Van der Waerden's Early Contributions to Quantum Mechanics
Discussion
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Bacciagaluppi, Guido; Valentini, Antony:
Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference
Jacobsen, Anja Skaar:
The Bohr-Rosenfeld Work on the Epistemology of Quantum Electrodynamics
Howard, Don:
EPR and the Hole Argument: In What Sense Did Einstein Think Quantum Mechanics Incomplete?
Camillieri, Kristian:
Constructing the Myth of the Copenhagen Interpretation
Discussion
Quantum Mechanics after WW II
Forstner, Christian:
The Emergence of Bohmian Mechanics: Dialectical Materialism and the Construction of a new Quantum Theory
Joas, Christian:
The Advent of Quantum Field Theoretical Methods in Solid State Physics
Yeang, Chen-Pang:
Engineering the Entanglement: Quantum Computation, Quantum Communication, and Re-conceptualizing Information
Auletta, Gennaro:
The Problem of Quantum Mechanics' Interpretation
Discussion