Quantum Humor: The Playful Side of Physics at Bohr’s Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Paul Halpern

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[1] University of the Sciences in Philadelphia,Department of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics

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Physics in Perspective | 2012年 / 14卷

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Niels Bohr; Kanetaka Ariyama; Hans Bethe; Hendrik Casimir; James Chadwick; Paul Ehrenfest; George Gamow; Piet Hein; Werner Heisenberg; Oskar Klein; Hendrik Kramers; Wolfgang Pauli; Rudolf Peierls; Léon Rosenfeld; Stefan Rozental; Arnold Sommerfeld; Victor Weisskopf; Niels Bohr Institute; humor; history of atomic physics; history of nuclear physics;

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From the 1930s to the 1950s, a period of pivotal developments in quantum, nuclear, and particle physics, physicists at Niels Bohr’s Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen took time off from their research to write humorous articles, letters, and other works. Best known is the Blegdamsvej Faust, performed in April 1932 at the close of one of the Institute’s annual conferences. I also focus on the Journal of Jocular Physics, a humorous tribute to Bohr published on the occasions of his 50th, 60th, and 70th birthdays in 1935, 1945, and 1955. Contributors included Léon Rosenfeld, Victor Weisskopf, George Gamow, Oskar Klein, and Hendrik Casimir. I examine their contributions along with letters and other writings to show that they offer a window into some issues in physics at the time, such as the interpretation of complementarity and the nature of the neutrino, as well as the politics of the period.

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页码：279 / 299

页数：20