HQ-1 Talks
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| Auletta, Gennaro | The Problem of Quantum Mechanics’ Interpretation |
| Bacciagaluppi, Guido Valentini, Antony |
Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference |
| Badino, Massimiliano | The Odd Couple: Boltzmann, Planck, and the Application of Statistics to Physics |
| Camilleri, Kristian | Constructing the Myth of the Copenhagen Interpretation |
| Cassidy, David C. | Examining the Crisis in Quantum Theory: Its Origins, Nature, Extent, and Impact |
| Duncan, Tony Janssen, Michel |
Pascual Jordan’s resolution of the conundrum of the wave-particle duality of light. |
| Engler, Olaf | Scientific Philosophy and Quantum Physics |
| Forstner, Christian | The Emergence of Bohmian Mechanics: Dialectical Materialism and the Construction of a new Quantum Theory |
| Friedrich, Bretislav | How a bad cigar assisted at the birth of quantum mechanics |
| Gearhart, Clayton | Quantum quandaries: Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Otto Stern, and the specific heat of hydrogen |
| Giannetto, Enrico | Poincare's Electromagnetic Quantum Mechanics |
| Giulini, Domenico | Electron Spin or "klassisch nicht beschreibbare Art von Zweideutigkeit" |
| Howard, Don | EPR and the Hole Argument: In What Sense Did Einstein Think Quantum Mechanics Incomplete? |
| Hu, Danian Zhang, Baichun |
The Early Introduction of Quantum Theory in China |
| Jacobsen, Anja Skaar | The Bohr-Rosenfeld work on the epistemology of quantum electrodynamics |
| Joas, Christian | The Advent of Quantum Field Theoretical Methods in Solid State Physics |
| Jordi, Marta Perez, Enric |
The Ehrenfest Adiabatic Hypothesis and the Old Quantum Theory, before Bohr |
| Kojevnikov, Alexei | "Knabenphysik": The birth of quantum mechanics from a postdoctoral viewpoint |
| Lehner, Christoph Renn, Jürgen |
Schrödinger's Way to 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. |
| Navarro, Jaume | Planck and de Broglie in the Thomson family |
| Norton, John | Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905. |
| 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 |
| Perovic, Slobodan | Why were logically distinct theories deemed equivalent in early Quantum Mechanics? |
| Rynasiewicz, Robert | On ‘The[?] So-Called Correspondence Principle’ |
| Sauer, Tilman | Probing concepts, old and new: Einstein's interpretation of superconductivity |
| Schirrmacher, Arne | Who did really believe in Bohr's atom? The "Ultramikroskopie des Atominneren" of Peter Debye and the art of reinterpreting experimental results |
| Schneider, Martina | A service for the physicists? Van der Waerden’s early contributions to quantum mechanics |
| Scholz, Erhard | H. Weyl entering the "new" quantum mechanics discourse |
| Sigurdsson, Skuli | Quantum Mechanics and a New Thought Style: Die Naturwissenschaften in the Interwar Years |
| Smeenk, Chris | The Early Days of the “Group Plague” |
| Stöltzner, Michael | Vienna Indeterminism and the Problems of Quantum Mechanical Causality |
| Stuewer, Roger | Einstein's Revolutionary Quantum Hypothesis |
| Yeang, Chen-Pang | Engineering the Entanglement: Quantum Computation, Quantum Communication, and Re-conceptualizing Information |