Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Wolfgang Pauli and the Search for a Unified Theory.- 3. Niels Bohr and the Problems of Atomic Theory.- 4. The Technical Problem Complex.- 5. From Bohr’s Virtual Oscillators to the New Kinematics of Heisenberg and Pauli.- 6. The New Kinematics and Its Exploration.- 7. Wave Mechanics and the Problem of Interpretation.- 8. Transformation Theory and the Development of the Probabilistic Interpretation.- 9. The Uncertainty Principle and the Copenhagen Interpretation.- 10. Concluding Remarks.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.

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