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The Networks of Early Quantum Theory

FS75_Quantum_Image4 No 75 No one single event caused the quantum revolution. Instead, it emerged from a series of crises in classical mechanics from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Quantum physics evolved over many decades and was based on existing practices and structures. Importantly, its development was also a communal effort: biographies on just a few central figures would ignore the broader community of researchers and the network that allowed them to achieve what no single scientist could do alone.
  • Alexander Blum
  • Christoph Lehner
  • Jürgen Renn
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