On Modern Physics

by Werner Heisenberg (Contributor), Max Born (Contributor), Erwin Schrödinger (Contributor)

The revolution in modern physics and its repercussions in all fields of thought is the subject discussed in this book by four great European physicists: Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and exponent of the "principle of uncertainty"; Erwin Schrödinger, who laid the basis of wave mechanics; Max Born, innovator and leader in many aspects of the new physics; and Pierre Auger, discoverer of the "Auger effect" in photoelectronics which is of basic importance to the study of atomic spectra.

Genres: Physics

108 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

Werner Heisenberg (AKA W. Heisenberg) was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. In addition, he made important contributions to nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and particle physics.

He won the 1932 Nobel prize in physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen".