Research and Pedagogy

Massimiliano Badino; Jaume Navarro

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AB - Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught once they are fully understood and generally accepted. The essays in this volume challenge this view by studying some of the early books and textbooks in which quantum theory was first introduced. By so doing, the authors show the many ways books and textbooks embody pedagogical and research practices in certain local environments (geographical, disciplinary, in terms of expertise, etc.), as well as the circular feedback between research and pedagogy.Textbooks can become the subject of a history of early quantum physics since the very process of writing a textbook, (i.e., of trying to organise a new doctrine to the newcomer in an accessible way), together with its life as an object that is issued, used, changed, and abandoned, incorporates many of the tensions between research and pedagogy. Furthermore, the life of these books can also help us better situate less known actors in the history of quantum physics, by bringing into the picture the reasons, the context, the research agenda, and other aspects that cannot be found in the publication of research papers or in the abundant correspondence between the main physicists involved in this story.The case studies collected in this volume may, at first glance, look like a heterogeneous set. Some books were not, in fact, primarily addressing quantum theory as such, but including some of its early principles in re-shaping the established foundational principles and modes of teaching in fields such as optics and physical chemistry. Others were written by scientists not directly involved in the development of the new physics, and their books were addressed at an audience interested in having only a superficial knowledge of the theory of quanta. Finally, the main actors in the formulation of quantum theory wrote books on the quantum for different purposes: as a way to organise their thoughts, to spread a particular interpretation of the theory, or to press for their personal research agendas, among others. This heterogeneity is, however, the tool the editors use to give a full picture of the role of early textbooks in the history of quantum physics.
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Studies 2

Research and Pedagogy

A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks

Massimiliano Badino, Jaume Navarro (eds.)

This book addresses how new ideas in emerging quantum physics were introduced in textbooks.

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Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught once they are fully understood and generally accepted. The essays in this volume challenge this view by studying some of the early books and textbooks in which quantum theory was first introduced. By so doing, the authors show the many ways books and textbooks embody pedagogical and research practices in certain local environments (geographical, disciplinary, in terms of expertise, etc.), as well as the circular feedback between research and pedagogy.

Textbooks can become the subject of a history of early quantum physics since the very process of writing a textbook, (i.e., of trying to organise a new doctrine to the newcomer in an accessible way), together with its life as an object that is issued, used, changed, and abandoned, incorporates many of the tensions between research and pedagogy. Furthermore, the life of these books can also help us better situate less known actors in the history of quantum physics, by bringing into the picture the reasons, the context, the research agenda, and other aspects that cannot be found in the publication of research papers or in the abundant correspondence between the main physicists involved in this story.

The case studies collected in this volume may, at first glance, look like a heterogeneous set. Some books were not, in fact, primarily addressing quantum theory as such, but including some of its early principles in re-shaping the established foundational principles and modes of teaching in fields such as optics and physical chemistry. Others were written by scientists not directly involved in the development of the new physics, and their books were addressed at an audience interested in having only a superficial knowledge of the theory of quanta. Finally, the main actors in the formulation of quantum theory wrote books on the quantum for different purposes: as a way to organise their thoughts, to spread a particular interpretation of the theory, or to press for their personal research agendas, among others. This heterogeneity is, however, the tool the editors use to give a full picture of the role of early textbooks in the history of quantum physics.

Contributors

1 Pedagogy and Research. Notes for a Historical Epistemology
of Science Education
Massimiliano Badino, Jaume Navarro

2 Sorting Things Out: Drude and the Foundations of Classical Optics
Marta Jordi Taltavull

3 Max Planck as Textbook Author
Dieter Hoffmann

4 Dissolving the Boundaries between Research and Pedagogy: Otto Sackur’s Lehrbuch der Thermochemie und Thermodynamik
Massimiliano Badino

5 Fritz Reiche’s 1921 Quantum Theory Textbook
Clayton A. Gearhart

6 Sommerfeld’s Atombau und Spektrallinien
Michael Eckert

7 Kuhn Losses Regained: Van Vleck from Spectra to
Susceptibilities
Charles Midwinter, Michel Janssen

8 Max Born’s Vorlesungen über Atommechanik, Erster Band
Domenico Giulini

9 Teaching Quantum Physics in Cambridge: George Birtwistle and His Two Textbooks
Jaume Navarro

10 Paul Dirac and The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Helge Kragh

11 Quantum Mechanics in Context:
Pascual Jordan's 1936 Anschauliche Quantentheorie
Don Howard

12 Epilogue: Textbooks and the Emergence of a Conceptual Trajectory
David Kaiser

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Back, Ernst E. A.

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Bardeen, John

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Basset, Alfred B.

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Bechert, Karl

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Bederson, Benjamin

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Birge, Raymond T.

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Birkhoff, Garrett

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Birtwistle, George

1
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3
4

Bloch, Felix

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Bohr, Niels

Atomic model

Correspondence principle

1
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Boltzmann, Ludwig

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Born, Max

Bose, Satyendra Nath

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Bothe, Walther

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Bragg, William

1
2

Brattain, Walter H.

1

Bridgman, Percy W.

1
2

Briggs, Lyman J.

1
2

Brillouin, Léon

1
2

Bronstein, Matvei P.

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2
3
4

Brose, Henry L.

1
2

Buchner, Eduard

1

Burgers, Johannes M.

1

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Carnap, Rudolf

1
2

Cassirer, Ernst

1

Catalan, Miguel

1

Chadwick, James

1

Collins, Harry

1

Compton, Arthur H.

1

Compton effect

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6
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Courant, Richard

1
2

Curie, Marie

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Damerow, Peter

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Darwin, Charles G.

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7

Davisson, Clinton J.

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2

De Broglie, Louis

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Debye, Peter

Dennison, David M.

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Dewey, John

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Dirac, Paul A. M.

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Donnan, Frederick G.

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Dony, Françoise

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Drude, Paul

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Eddington, Arthur

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Ehrenfest, Paul

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Einstein, Albert

Light quantum

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Radiation theory

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Relativity theory

1
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Theory of specific heats

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Epstein, Paul

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Eucken, Arnold

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Ewald, Paul

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Fajans, Kazimierz

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Faraday, Michael

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9

Fermi, Enrico

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Feynman, Richard P.

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FitzGerald, George F.

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Fleck, Ludwig

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Fock, Vladimir A.

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Foote, Paul D.

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2
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5

Foucault, Michel

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Fowler, Ralph H.

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Franck, James

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Frank, Phillipp

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Franz, Walter

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Frenkel, Yakov

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Fresnel, Augustin-Jean

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Füchtbauer, Christian

1

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Gaunt, John A.

1

Geiger, Hans

1

Gerlach, Walther

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Gibbs, Josiah W.

1
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Glaser, August

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Haber, Fritz

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Hahn, Otto

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Hall, Edwin

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Hamilton, William R.

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Hannaway, Owen

1

Hardy, Godfrey H.

1

Hartree, Douglas

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5

Hatfield, Henry S.

1

Heilbron, John L.

1

Heisenberg, Werner

Helmholtz, Hermann von

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10

Hertz, Gustav

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Hilbert, David

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Hill, Edward L.

1

Hund, Friedrich

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Höpfner Sommerfeld, Johanna

1
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Immerwahr, Clara

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Ishiwara, Jun

1
2

Ivanenko, Dmitri

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Jacobi, Carl G.

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Jeans, James H.

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Jellinek, Karl

1
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Jordahl, Olaf

1

Jordan, Pascual

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Kapitza, Peter

1

Kaufmann, Walter

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3

Kemble, Edwin C.

1
2
3

Kennard, Earle H.

1

Kerr, John

1
2
3
4
5
6

Ketteler, Eduard

1
2

Kirchhoff, Gustav R.

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2
3

Klein, Oskar

1
2

Kobayashi, Minoru

1

Koopman, Bernard O.

1

Kopp, Hermann F. M.

1

Kramers, Hendrik A.

Kratzer, Adolf

1

Kronig, Ralph

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2
3
4
5
6

Kuhn, Thomas S.

Kuhn losses

König, Walter

1

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Ladenburg, Rudolf

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Lagrange, Joseph L.

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Landau, Lev D.

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Landé, Alfred

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10

Langevin, Paul

Laplace, Pierre S.

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Laporte, Otto

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Larmor, Joseph

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Latour, Bruno

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2

Laue, Max von

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Lawrence, Samuel L.

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2

Lenard, Philipp

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Lennard-Jones, John

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Lenz, Wilhelm

1
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Lewis, Exum P.

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Liebig, Justus

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Lifshitz, Evgeny M.

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Lin, Chun

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Lindemann, Frederick A.

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2

Lodge, Oliver

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Lorentz, Hendrik A.

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Love, Augustus E. H.

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Lummer, Otto

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Mach, Ernst

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Mann, Charles R.

1

Manneback, Charles

1
2

Margenau, Henry

1

Maue, August W.

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Maxwell, James C.

McCrea, William

1

Meggers, William F.

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3

Meitner, Lise

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Mendenhall, Charles E.

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Mensing, Lucy

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Merton, Robert K.

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Michelson, Albert A.

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Mie, Gustav

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Millikan, Robert A.

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Minkowski, Rudolph

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Morell, Jack

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Mott, Nevill

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Nernst, Walther

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Heat theorem

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Neumann, Franz

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Nicholson, John W.

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Niessen, Kare Frederick

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Nishina, Yoshio

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Nordheim, Lothar W.

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Oppenheimer, Julius R.

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2

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Partington, James R.

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Paschen, Friedrich

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Paul, Theodor

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Pauli, Wolfgang

Pauling, Linus

Penney, William

1

Piaget, Jean

1

Planck, Max

Black body law

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12

Quantum hypothesis

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Poincaré, Henri

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Preston, Thomas

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Päsler, Max

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Ramsey, William

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Reiche, Fritz

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Reichenbach, Hans

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Reiff, Richard A.

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2

Richardson, Owen W.

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2

Ritz, Walther

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Rojansky, Vladimir

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Rollefson, Ragnar

1

Roschdestwensky, Dmitri S.

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Ruark, Arthur E.

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Rubinowicz, Adalbert

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3

Runge, Carl

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Rutherford, Ernest

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5

Röntgen, Wilhelm

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2

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Sackur, Otto

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3

Sarton, George

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Schlapp, Robert

1

Schlick, Moritz

1
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Schrödinger, Erwin

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Schwarzschild, Karl

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Segrè, Emilio

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Senter, George

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Serber, Robert

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Shockley, William B.

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Siertsema, Lodewijk

1

Sieveking, Hermann

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Slater, John C.

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Smekal, Adolf

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Snow, Charles P.

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Solvay

Solvay Conference 1911

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Solvay Conference 1927

1
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Solvay Conference 1930

1

Sommerfeld, Arnold

Spengler, Ostwald

1

Stark, Johannes

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6

Stefan, Josef

1

Stern, Otto

1
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3
4

Stuewer, Roger

1

Swann, W. F.

1

Sylvester, James J.

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Tamaki, Hidehiko

1

Tate, John T.

1
2

Thomas, Llewellyn H.

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Thomson, Joseph J.

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8

Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro

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Valentiner, Siegfried

1
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5

Van Vleck, John H.

1

Van’t Hoff, Jacobus H.

1
2

Voigt, Woldemar

Von Kármán, Theodore

1
2

Von Miller, Oskar

1

Von Neumann, John

1
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6

Von Simson, Clara

1

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Waldmann, Ludwig

1

Wang, Shou Chin

1

Warburg, Emil

1

Washburn, Edward W.

1
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6

Weber, Heinrich F.

1

Weinstein, Bernhard

1

Welker, Heinrich

1

Wentzel, Gregor

1

Weyl, Hermann

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Wheeler, John A.

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Whitney, Robert B.

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Wiechert, Emil

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Wien, Wilhelm

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Wigner, Eugene

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Wilson, Alan H.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wood, Robert W.

1

Woolgar, Steve

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Yukawa, Hideki

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2

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Zahn, Charles T.

1

Zeeman, Pieter

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Zeeman effect

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Research and Pedagogy

A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks

A

Abegg, Richard

Abraham, Max

Adams, Elliot Q.

Alexandrow, W.

Anderson, Philip W.

Aston, Francis

Atanassoff, J. V.

B

Back, Ernst E. A.

Bardeen, John

Basset, Alfred B.

Bechert, Karl

Bederson, Benjamin

Birge, Raymond T.

Birkhoff, Garrett

Birtwistle, George

Bloch, Felix

Bohr, Niels

Atomic model

Correspondence principle

Boltzmann, Ludwig

Born, Max

Bose, Satyendra Nath

Bothe, Walther

Bragg, William

Brattain, Walter H.

Bridgman, Percy W.

Briggs, Lyman J.

Brillouin, Léon

Bronstein, Matvei P.

Brose, Henry L.

Buchner, Eduard

Burgers, Johannes M.

C

Carnap, Rudolf

Cassirer, Ernst

Catalan, Miguel

Chadwick, James

Collins, Harry

Compton, Arthur H.

Compton effect

Courant, Richard

Curie, Marie

D

Damerow, Peter

Darwin, Charles G.

Davisson, Clinton J.

De Broglie, Louis

Debye, Peter

Dennison, David M.

Dewey, John

Dirac, Paul A. M.

Donnan, Frederick G.

Dony, Françoise

Drude, Paul

E

Eddington, Arthur

Ehrenfest, Paul

Einstein, Albert

Light quantum

Radiation theory

Relativity theory

Theory of specific heats

Epstein, Paul

Eucken, Arnold

Ewald, Paul

F

Fajans, Kazimierz

Faraday, Michael

Fermi, Enrico

Feynman, Richard P.

FitzGerald, George F.

Fleck, Ludwig

Fock, Vladimir A.

Foote, Paul D.

Foucault, Michel

Fowler, Ralph H.