[Vp: Vp, 1924-1927]. An extraordinary sammelband of offprints from the period 1924-27, during which Heisenberg’s new quantum mechanics (1925) revolutionized the study of atomic phenomena. The most important are the four papers by Max Born in which he introduced the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics (nos. 10, 14, 15 and..... More
Item #5363

[N.p. N.p., 1943-44]. Historic autograph letter from Werner Heisenberg (1901-76), the inventor of quantum mechanics and author of the famous uncertainty principle, to his fellow physicist and sometime collaborator Hendrik Anthony Kramers (1894-1952), discussing Heisenberg’s S-matrix approach to elementary particle physics and urging Kramers to collaborate with him on a...... More
Item #5304

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of Heisenberg’s solution of the problem of ferromagnetism, and a remarkable association copy linking two of the greatest figures in twentieth-century physics. Bohr and Heisenberg are also linked by the subject matter of the present work. In his..... More
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