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Groves, Leslie R.

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“…This version has been criticized by Walker (1989) 26 See, for example, Frank (1993) or Bernstein (1996). Some excerpts had already been published in Groves (1962), Ch. 24.…”

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“…I find it is a disgrace if we, the professors who have worked on it, cannot at least work out how they did it.' Quoted from the Farm Hall transcripts in Groves (1962), p. 338; see also Bernstein (1996), p. 178. 29 See Rose's book, Chs. 1-3, and §2.4 below.…”

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“…Laue, Heisenberg and Hahn, Bothe, Jensen, respectively. 33 First quoted in Groves (1962), p. 335; see also Bernstein (1996), p. 129. 34 The heroic portrait of Heisenberg in Jungk (1958) has now been discarded even by its author, although this picture has lived on in Hermann (1977) and in Powers (1993).…”

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“…41 One feature of Goudsmit's book stands out, and that is the enormous importance he attaches 36 Greek for 'grove' as in 'General Leslie Groves', the military leader of the Manhattan Project. 37 Groves (1962), p. 186. 38 Walker's (1990) characterization of Alsos as a 'heroic' account seems to ignore this aspect.…”

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Getting even with Heisenberg

Landsman

2002

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in

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£21.95.'Aber es ist ein wichtiger Unterschied zwischen allem, was vor 1933 geschah, und dem, was dann kam: Alles frühere zog an uns vorbei undüber uns hin, es beschäftigte uns und regte uns auf, und den einen oder andern tötete es oder ließ ihn verarmen; aber keinen stellte es vor letzte Gewissensentscheidungen. Ein innerster Lebensbezirk blieb unberührt. Man machte Erfahrungen, man bildeteÜberzeugungen: Aber man blieb, was man war. Keiner, der, willig oder widerstrebend, in die Maschine des Dritten Reichs geraten ist, kann das ehrlich von sich sagen.' (Sebastian Haffner) 1 IntroductionWerner Heisenberg (1901Heisenberg ( -1976) is probably best known for his discovery of the uncertainty relations in quantum mechanics and their physical interpretation (1927). En route to quantum mechanics itself, he had earlier had the decisive insight that quantum-mechanical variables do not commute (1925). This formed the basis for the creation of matrix mechanics immediately afterwards by Born and Jordan, appearing in mature form in the 'Dreimännerarbeit' with Heisenberg. 2 This was one of the two paths along which modern quantum mechanics was discovered.Some of his other achievements in theoretical physics deserve to be mentioned. Barely 20, and well before the introduction of electron spin, Heisenberg made the revolutionary proposal to allow half-integral quantum numbers in the context of the Zeeman effect (1921). He made various other significant contributions in the period 1920-1925 that led to the establishment of quantum mechanics, and once the new theory had arrived, he was the first to derive a number of important consequences. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize 'for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has led, among other things, to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen' (official citation). Similarly, Heisenberg provided the quantum-mechanical explanation of the occurrence of para-and ortho-helium (1926). His explanation of ferromagnetism (1928) stands out, too, but his most important work of the period is the foundation of quantum field theory with Pauli (1929). A few years later he became one of the founders of theoretical nuclear physics with a detailed proposal on the interactions between protons and neutrons in a nucleus. 3 Heisenberg had certain other ideas that were somewhat off focus when he proposed them, but which in later developments by others turned out to be influential. This applies to his suggestion to replace quantum field theory by an S-matrix (1942), an idea that came to dominate elementary particle physics in the sixties, to his proposal of a minimal length (1936), which much later found its correct incarnation in lattice field theory as well as in quantum gravity, to his description of superconductivity as a phase transition in the late forties, eventually leading to the modern idea of 0 Supported by a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands

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“…This version has been criticized by Walker (1989) 26 See, for example, Frank (1993) or Bernstein (1996). Some excerpts had already been published in Groves (1962), Ch. 24.…”

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“…Hatte man spatestens seit Veroffentlichung von Samuel Goudsmits Alsos-Report [l] dies geahnt, so war mit den 1962 erschienenen Memoiren von General Leslie Groves [2], dem militarischen Leiter des amerikanischen Atombombenprojektes, die Vermutung zur Gewiaheit geworden. Auch wenn Groves in Ausschnitten die abgehorten Gesprache zitiert hat, blieben die Aufzeichnungen selbst weitere dreil3ig Jahre ,,Top Secret" und VerschluBsache der britischen Regierung.…”

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