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Victor Weisskopf 1908-21/4/2002

Victor Weisskopf 1908-21/4/2002. Quantum mechanics pioneer Assistant to Pauli, Bohr, Schr ö dinger Manhattan Project, later peace campaigner CERN Director General. "When life is very bad, two things make life worth living – Mozart and quantum mechanics.".

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Victor Weisskopf 1908-21/4/2002

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  1. Victor Weisskopf1908-21/4/2002 • Quantum mechanics pioneer • Assistant to Pauli, Bohr, Schrödinger • Manhattan Project, later peace campaigner • CERN Director General "When life is very bad, two things make life worth living – Mozart and quantum mechanics."

  2. Anti-Hydrogen – CERN Press release 18/9/2002 • Anti-protons, anti-electrons (positrons) standard tools in particle physics • BUT first production of anti-atoms • Do they behave same way as atoms ? ATHENA Charged particles stored by electromagnetic fields But not neutral atoms Anti-H atoms annihilate on walls of vessel Nature   Vol. 419, p 456 - 459 (03 Oct 2002)

  3. Athena Video

  4. CERN intro. video

  5. Quantum Uncertainty • Max Planck – Inventor of QM ? • Black Body Radiation Eqn (1901) • Energy emitted in bundles of energy • Energy is QUANTISED • Hence birth of QM…. • But actually…. • The paper does not stress quanta, never says E=nhv • “a purely formal assumption”, Planck 1931 • In 1901 nobody noticed the quanta ! Historical revisionism! • So what was first “Quantum” paper ? • 1905, Photo-Electric Effect, Einstein • Realised quantum nature of Planck’s theory

  6. Joke

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