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Physics Bulletin

The Development of Quantum Theory

K Paulus

Published Feb 1, 1972• 25 citations
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P A M Dirac London: Gordon and Breach 1971 pp x + 66 price £2·90 ( cloth ) £1·25 ( paper ) This slim booklet contains the text of Dirac's speech accepting the first J Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize of the University of Miami. Although the lecture follows the development of quantum theory during its early days step by step, it is rather more about the motivations and emotions of the scientists that pursued it.

DOI
10.1088/0031-9112/23/2/019

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