Publication
Imprint: Woodbridge, Connecticut : Ox Bow Press, 1987. Context: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wiley, 1963. Series: The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr (Volume 3). Responsibility: Neils Bohr. Physical: Text : 1 volume : x, 100 pages ; 24 cm.
Call number
Sci-Philo / Bohr
ISBN
0918024544 / 9780918024541
Original publication date
1963
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Volume III, Essays 1958-1962 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge, sums up and refines the philosophical views that emerged from Bohr's involvement with the scientific revolution of the twentieth century. He states his views on complementarity, the limitations of human knowledge, and the problems that arise in biology from "the practically inexhaustible complexity of the organism.
Table of Contents: Quantum physics and philosophical--causality and complementarity
The unity of human knowledge
The connection between the sciences
Light and life revisited
The Rutherford memorial lecture 1958: reminiscences of the founder of nuclear science and of some developments based on his work
The genesis of quantum mechanics
The Solvay meetings and the development of quantum mechanics
FY1989 / FY2015 /
Table of Contents: Quantum physics and philosophical--causality and complementarity
The unity of human knowledge
The connection between the sciences
Light and life revisited
The Rutherford memorial lecture 1958: reminiscences of the founder of nuclear science and of some developments based on his work
The genesis of quantum mechanics
The Solvay meetings and the development of quantum mechanics
FY1989 / FY2015 /
Physical description
x, 100 p.; 24 cm
Description
These essays and speeches by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist date from 1934 to 1958. Rather than expositions on quantum physics, the articles are philosophical in nature, exploring the relevance of atomic physics to many areas of human endeavor. Topics include light and life, biology and atomic physics, natural philosophy and human cultures, unity of knowledge, atoms and human knowledge, and physical science and the problem of life. An essay in which Bohr and Einstein discuss determinism in quantum theory and the future of the wave equation theory is of particular note.