Lecture 1: Elements of the History of Quantum Mechanics I

Dennis Morris

Gianfausto Dell’Antonio

In “ Lecture 1: Elements of the History of Quantum Mechanics I” and “ Lecture 2: Elements of the History of Quantum Mechanics II” we have presented experimental results, theoretical analysis, models, analogies and insights that were accumulated for the description of physics at the scale of atoms. We described also the theoretical formulations that were developed in very few years and are the basis of a new theory for the dynamics of atomic systems: Quantum Mechanics.

Gianfausto Dell’Antonio

We mentioned in chapter “ Lecture 1: Elements of the History of Quantum Mechanics I ” that a line of research was centered on finding relations between the structure of the energy levels and the frequency of the emitted radiation and on describing the scattering from a dipole. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Jean Bricmont

J S Briggs

Max Born London: MIT Press 1972 pp xiv + 200 price £1·40 (paper) This is a paperback edition, in the series History of Science and Technology by MIT Press, of Born's classic course of lectures delivered at MIT in the winter of 1925–6. The first 20 lectures, on the 'old' and 'new' quantum theory, are literally history in the making as the elements of the new quantum theory were being assembled even as the series of lectures progressed.