Article ID: CBB000932737

Weimar Physics: Sommerfeld's Seminar and the Causality Principle (2009)

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The development of quantum mechanics in the period 1920--1927 posed challenges to the understanding of causality and its incorporation into the new dynamics. Though aware of these challenges to the classical concepts of causality and to the conservation laws of energy and momentum, Arnold Sommerfeld and the members of his seminar never wavered in their commitment to the conservation laws because of their belief in the preestablished harmony between mathematics and physics that Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski had championed. I survey these developments and trace how the concept of causality was reformulated in scattering theory by Gregor Wentzel, Enrico Fermi, and Giulio Racah.

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Authors & Contributors
Seth, Suman
Eckert, Michael
De Gregorio, Alberto
Adrien Vila Valls
Cristiano Buttaro
Guerra, Francesco
Journals
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
European Physical Journal H
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Publishers
Guaraldi
Wallstein Verlag
Oxford University Press
Princeton University
Concepts
Physics
Theoretical physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Biographies
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy of science
People
Fermi, Enrico
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
Meitner, Lise
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Wick, Gian Carlo
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
Germany
Rome (Italy)
Naples (Italy)
Turin (Italy)
France
Institutions
Università di Roma
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
University of Chicago
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