Letters on wave mechanics - Schrodinger, Planck, Einstein, Lorentz (1967) [Inua].djvu

Title: Letters on Wave Mechanics: Schrodinger-Planck-Einstein-Lorentz
Authors: Albert Einstein, Erwin Schroedinger, Max Planck, H. A. Lorentz
Editor: Karl Przibram
Hardcover: 75 pages
Publisher: Philosophical Library; First edition (1967)
Language: English

ISBN10: 0854782710
ISBN13: 9780854782710

A great physical theory like Shodinger's wave mechanics, when it is confirmed, takes on its own impersonal existence in the course of time, becomes completely detached from its originator, and is finally received as self-evident. In this way one forgets how many inner struggles, hopes, and disappointments were bound up with its beginnings and one forgets too all the pros and cons of contemporary reactions to it. This more personal side can be reawakened into life if there are contemporary letters like the ones reproduced here.