Communicating the Heisenberg uncertainty relations: Niels Bohr, complementarity and the Einstein-Rupp experiments

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • F. Aaserud
  • H. Kragh
Book title One hundred years of the Bohr atom
Book subtitle Proceedings from a conference
ISBN
  • 9788773043875
Series Scientia Danica. Series M, Mathematica et physica
Event 100 years of the Bohr atom, 1913-2013
Pages (from-to) 310-343
Publisher København: Det Kongelige Danske Videskabernes Selskab
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract The Einstein–Rupp experiments have been sadly neglected in the history of quantum mechanics. While this is to be explained by the fact that Rupp was later exposed as a fraud and had fabricated the results, it is not justified, due to the importance attached to the experiments at the time. This paper discusses Rupp’s fraud, the relation between Einstein and Rupp, and the Einstein-Rupp experiments, and argues that these experiments were an influence on Bohr’s development of complementarity and Heisenberg’s formulation of the uncertainty relations.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Other links http://www.royalacademy.dk/en/Publikationer/Scientia-Danica/Series-M/M_1_Bohr https://www.nbarchive.dk/nba_calendar/2013/bohratom-100-years/
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