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Return to Helgoland: the centenary of quantum mechanics

Robert P Crease

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

One of the most significant events in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology is a workshop being held in June 2025 in Helgoland – the island where Werner Heisenberg laid the foundations for quantum mechanics 100 years ago. Robert P Crease asks delegates what they’ll be discussing and wonders whether Heisenberg’s work was as definitive as we like to think.

DOI
10.1088/2058-7058/38/01/18

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One of the most significant events in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology is a workshop being held in June 2025 in Helgoland – the island where Werner Heisenberg laid the foundations for quantum mechanics 100 years ago. Robert P Crease asks delegates what they’ll be discussing and wonders whether Heisenberg’s work was as definitive as we like to think.
Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of several seminal quantum-science publications including Wolfgang Pauli's paper on his exclusion principle and Werner Heisenberg's “Quantum-Theoretical Re-interpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations.”
In 2025, the global scientific community will celebrate the centenary of two remarkable events that form the foundation of modern quantum theory: the formulation of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and the creation of the concept of spin in elementary particles. Over the past 100 years, quantum theory has evolved from the recognition of the quantum nature of the fundamental laws of the microworld and the creation of a fundamentally new mathematical framework for describing these laws to the use of quantum systems and processes in applied research, from physics to biology, and in the fundamentally new nanotechnologies of 21st-century engineering.