Max Planck

:This article is about Planck, the German physicist. For the proposed European Space Agency artificial satellite, see "Planck (satellite)".

Quantum Mechanics

At the end of the Twenties Bohr, Heisenberg and Pauli had worked out the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, but it was rejected by Planck, as also by Schrödinger and Laue; even

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Bohr - Heisenberg - Pauli - Copenhagen interpretation - Schrödinger - Laue

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Einstein had turned into a conservative. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics he called "disgusting", the Schrödinger equation he welcomed like salvation. He expected that wave mechanics would soon render quantum theory - his own child - unnecessary. Scientific progress

Related Topics:
Einstein - Heisenberg - Matrix mechanics - Schrödinger equation - Wave mechanics

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ignored his concerns. He experienced the truth of his own earlier observation from his struggle with the older views in his younger years: "A new scientific truth does not establish itself by its enemies being convinced and expressing their change of opinion, but rather by its enemies gradually dying out and the younger generation being taught the truth from the beginning".

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