Communicating the Heisenberg uncertainty relations: Niels Bohr, Complementarity and the Einstein-Rupp experiments
Abstract
The Einstein-Rupp experiments have been unduly neglected in the history of quantum mechanics. While this is to be explained by the fact that Emil Rupp was later exposed as a fraud and had fabricated the results, it is not justified, due to the importance attached to the experiments at the time. This paper discusses Rupp's fraud, the relation between Albert Einstein and Rupp, and the Einstein-Rupp experiments, and argues that these experiments were an influence on Niels Bohr's development of complementarity and Werner Heisenberg's formulation of the uncertainty relations.
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@article{arxiv.1505.08104,
title = {Communicating the Heisenberg uncertainty relations: Niels Bohr, Complementarity and the Einstein-Rupp experiments},
author = {Jeroen van Dongen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.08104},
year = {2015}
}
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One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom, 1913-2013. Conference at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 11-14 June 2013. Published as Scientia Danica. Series M, Mathematica et physica, 1: One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom, Proceedings, 2015, pp. 310-343