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In July 1916, in the midst of the catastrophic European war, a thirty-year-old Dane returned from Manchester, where he had worked during the preceding two years, to his native Copenhagen to assume a professorship in theoretical physics. Upon landing, he r
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Alexei Kojevnikov
The Copenhagen Network The Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective
SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology Series Editors Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Theodore Arabatzis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Bretislav Friedrich, Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany Ulf Hashagen, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany Dieter Hoffmann, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK David Pantalony, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Matteo Valleriani, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
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Alexei Kojevnikov
The Copenhagen Network The Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective
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Alexei Kojevnikov Department of History University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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In memory of my teacher, Igor Serafimovich Alekseev (1935–1988), philosopher and Marxist interpreter of Bohr’s complementarity
Acknowledgements
This project was supported by the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, and by the SSHRC grant 410-2011-0936. I wish to thank all members of the quantum history group at the institute, in particular Jürgen Renn, Giuseppe
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