Article ID: CBB001221644

The Merli--Missiroli--Pozzi Two-Slit Electron-Interference Experiment (2012)

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In 2002 readers of Physics World voted Young's double-slit experiment with single electrons as the most beautiful experiment in physics of all time. Pier Giorgio Merli, Gian Franco Missiroli, and Giulio Pozzi carried out this experiment in a collaboration between the Italian Research Council and the University of Bologna almost three decades earlier. I examine their experiment, place it in historical context, and discuss its philosophical implications.

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Authors & Contributors
Barab, Peter
Bergia, Silvio
Byrne, Peter
Calmthout, Martijn van
Dolder, Craig N.
Duncan, Anthony
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
European Physical Journal H
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Carocci Editore
Harvard University Press
Open Way Press
Oxford University Press
Springer
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Wave-particle duality
Electron physics; ionization
Experiments and experimentation
People
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Heisenberg, Werner
Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Born, Max
Brown, Robert Hanbury
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Italy
England
Great Britain
Austria
Institutions
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
Rikagaku Kenkyu-Jo
Carnegie Institute of Technology
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