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Uncertainty and the Quantum Revolution

By Derek Kaufman (Editor), Neil deGrasse Tyson (Foreword by), Arati Prabhakar (Contribution by), Hannah Marcus (Contribution by), Peter Galison (Contribution by), Michael Gordin (Contribution by), Suman Seth (Contribution by), Ryan Dahn (Contribution by)
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By Derek Kaufman (Editor), Neil deGrasse Tyson (Foreword by), Arati Prabhakar (Contribution by), Hannah Marcus (Contribution by), Peter Galison (Contribution by), Michael Gordin (Contribution by), Suman Seth (Contribution by), Ryan Dahn (Contribution by)
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Essays examining the evolution of scientific understanding on the one hundredth anniversary of quantum mechanics.

In 1925 and 1926, the near-simultaneous development of two seemingly different mathematical approaches describing the behavior of subatomic particles revolutionized our understanding of the nature of matter. Werner Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics and Erwin Schrödinger’s wave equation were soon shown to be equivalent formulations of the same underlying concepts, and this new field o...