Physics Bulletin

Niels Bohr Collected Works Vol 3: The Correspondence Principle (1918–1923)

William Hunter McCrea

Published Jun 1, 1977• 8 citations

Abstract

J Rud Nielsen (ed) Amsterdam: North-Holland 1976 pp xii + 702 price $105.95 The coming of quantum physics, with the concept of a world of microphenomena so drastically different from the everyday world of macrophenomena – on account of the discreteness of microprocesses and the consequent need to express predictions about them in terms of probabilities – was the greatest revolution ever in thought about the physical universe. The man whose miraculous insight showed him that properties of atomic spectra, experimental discoveries by Rutherford, theoretical ideas of Planck and of Einstein, and other not obviously related developments, demanded such a revolution, and nothing less, was Niels Bohr.

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9112/28/6/037

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