NDLI: Complementarity before uncertainty

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Author	Petruccioli, Sandro
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	This article argues that a manuscript dated to the summer of 1927 by the editors of Bohr’s Collected Works was written a year earlier. The re-dating allows the conclusion that Bohr was well on his way to complementarity before his famous fight with Heisenberg over the uncertainty principle early in 1927. The literature that assumes that complementarity was Bohr’s response to Heisenberg is therefore in error. The editors of the Collected Works assigned the document the date of 1927 because it refers to electron-diffraction experiments by Davisson and Germer, which were published in 1927. But as the article points out, Bohr and other leading physicists such as Max Born met Davisson in Britain in 1926 and discussed the experiments with him then. That demolished the basis of the earlier dating. Finally, the article argues that when the document takes its place between the Bohr–Kramers–Slater theory (1924) and the 1927 drafts of complementarity, everything falls neatly into place.
Starting Page	591
Ending Page	624
Page Count	34
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00039519
Journal	Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Volume Number	65
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	14320657
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-08-10
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Astronomy, Observations and Techniques History of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics History of Science Philosophy of Science Physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Mathematics History and Philosophy of Science

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