The Solvay Spirit: How One Industrialist's Dream Brought About The Quantum Revolution

The years 2025 to 2027 will mark the two-year celebration of the first centenary of quantum mechanics and the myriad of ensuing discoveries that have turned our world upside down.Its complexity required twenty-five years of gestation to take shape between the ears of the world's brightest minds. But none of the fathers of quantum mechanics could have done it alone; above all, the slow process took place while discussing, debating and developing the fine details of the theory in the lecture ...