Article ID: CBB000641699

Planting in his Neighbor's Garden: David Hilbert and Early Göttingen Quantum Physics (2003)

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David Hilbert (1862-1943) played an important role in establishing quantum physics in Göttingen. I analyze the ways in which his influence was decisive by comparison with Woldemar Voigt (1850-1919). Voigt was the leading Göttingen theoretical physicist before the arrival of Peter Debye (1884-1966), who was appointed to a new professorship in 1914 at Hilbert's instigation. I portray the Göttingen mathematicians, above all Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909) and David Hilbert, as planting the seeds for the blossoming of quantum physics under their student Max Born (1882-1970) in the 1920s. Keywords: Key words. David Hilbert; Woldemar Voigt; Hermann Minkowski; Peter Debye; Max Born; Göttingen; quantum physics; theoretical physics.

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Authors & Contributors
Spałek, Józef
Kasten, Peter
Weyl, Hermann
Von Neumann, John
Valente, Giovanni
Tisza, Laszlo
Concepts
Physics
Mathematics
Quantum mechanics
Theoretical physics
Philosophy
Relativity
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
Hungary
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
University of Chicago
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