Article ID: CBB001022708

“Dialectical Materialism and Modern Physics”, an Unpublished Text by Max Born (2010)

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A previously unpublished manuscript by the physicist Max Born, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, is presented. The manuscript was addressed to Born's colleague Léon Rosenfeld and criticized his attempt to show that Niels Bohr's doctrine of complementarity was an example of dialectical materialism and as such in perfect agreement with Marxist philosophy. Besides illustrating the deep political divisions among defenders of the `Copenhagen spirit' in quantum physics, the manuscript is also a valuable source illuminating Max Born's philosophical position about scientific methodology and epistemology.

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Authors & Contributors
Salisbury, Donald
Jacobsen, Anja Skaar
Moral, Mercedes Xipell Gómez del
Konstantin A. Tomilin
Kurt Sundermeyer
Rocci, Alessio
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Science and politics
Theoretical physics
Marxism
Dialectical materialism
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Germany
Soviet Union
Göttingen (Germany)
Russia
Great Britain
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