Article ID: CBB981155225

Aesthetic Motivation in Quantum Physics: Past and Present (2022)

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This essay explores the relations between aesthetics and motivation, primarily in quantum physics, focusing on the notions of play, beauty, and the joy of insight. The motivating role of these notions is examined both historically among the quantum pioneers and contemporarily, based on a series of interviews, among physicists associated with the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.

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Authors & Contributors
Aaserud, Finn
Heesen, Anke te
Bernstein, Jeremy
Engelhardt, Dietrich von
Goodyear, Anne Collins
Hargittai, Balazs
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate Publishing
Hoepli
Johns Hopkins University
MIT Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Interviews
Quantum mechanics
Aesthetics
Cold War
History of science, as a discipline
Public health
People
Bell, John Stewart
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Darwin, Charles Robert
Forman, Paul
Heilbron, John L.
Kauffman, George B.
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Medieval
Places
Brussels (Belgium)
Belgium
China
Denmark
Germany
United States
Institutions
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Boston (band)
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