Abstract

Abstract Isidor Rabi [21] grew to scientific maturity just at the time that the new physics of wave and quantum mechanics was emerging from Germany. In 1926, he was in the late stages of his Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York, hugely excited by the new developments. Roman candles, as he later put it, were going off all around. Erwin Schrodinger [116] had just succeeded in reconciling his wave mechanics with Werner Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics, at first sight entirely different, but as Schrödinger ultimately showed, different mathematical formulations of the same principles. Heisenberg’s method called for a new mathematics [180], while Schr6dinger’s, though difficult, was of a form that a well-educated physicist could recognize.

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