Article ID: CBB100886609

Casimir en Einstein. ‘Hij kan al wat maar heeft nog slaag nodig’ (2016)

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Casimir and Einstein Hendrik Casimir knew Albert Einstein from the presentations he gave at Paul Ehrenfest’s Leiden colloquiums in the late 1920s. As a student he witnessed Einstein’s determined opposition to quantum mechanics, expressed in sharp thought experiments. After Ehrenfest’s suicide they lost touch. Their scientific work, however, still proved to have a connection long after Einstein’s death. Einstein’s last great discovery of the Bose Einstein condensation of 1924 and the Casimir effect due to vacuum fluctuations of 1948 converge in modern physics research.

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Authors & Contributors
Rocci, Alessio
Kunihisa Morita
Straumann, Norbert
Stone, A. Douglas
Shumelda, Mark
Schroer, Bert
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Theoretical physics
Philosophy of science
Thought experiments
Philosophy
Time Periods
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Brussels (Belgium)
Paris (France)
Institutions
International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry (Brussels)
Solvay Conferences
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