Sources of Quantum Mechanics

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Bartel Leendert Waerden
North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967 - Science - 430 pages
Although Max Planck's famous lecture of 1900 gave quantum theory its essential form, the theory as he stated it was just the beginning. In this book, Professor van der Waerden collected 17 early papers which developed quantum theory into the form in which we know it. These papers appeared from 1917 to 1926, and were written by many of the leading physicists of the early 20th century.

Contents

Max Planck
1
History of the Correspondence Principle
7
Über die Streuung 223
9
Kramers dispersion theory
14
Born and Jordan
20
The final text of paper 12
27
Borns reaction to Heisenbergs paper
36
Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung Phy
63
Die quantentheoretische Zahl der Dis
139
The quantum
159
The law of dispersion and Bohrs theory
177
The quantum theory of dispersion
199
Über die Gesamtstärke der von einem Zu
253
Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung
261
Phys 34 p 858 received Sept 27 1925 Abridged
307
Z Phys 35 p 557 received Nov 16 1925
387

Adiabatic Invariants and the Theory of
79
1916 p 412
93
punkt der neuen Quantenmechanik Z Phys 36 p 336
417
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