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- Title
"Philosophysics" at the University of Vienna: The (Pre-)History of Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Viennese Cultural Context.
- Authors
Del Santo, Flavio; Schwarzhans, Emanuel
- Abstract
Vienna today is one of the capitals of research on foundations of quantum physics. We reconstruct the development of modern physics in Vienna, with a focus on foundations of quantum mechanics (FQM), which is a sub-field of quantum mechanics. We show that the influence of Erwin Schrödinger and, in more recent years, the initiatives of Anton Zeilinger—the two main intuitive reasons—cannot alone account for today's outstanding research landscape on FQM in Vienna. We highlight four additional factors that played a crucial role in the development of foundational research in Vienna: 1) the Viennese heritage of the cultural golden age just before World War II; 2) the long-lasting institutional connection between the faculty of physics and philosophy; 3) a rise of several initiatives that gave forum to the interplay of physics and philosophy; and 4) the influence of several external scholars in the Viennese scientific landscape. Our analysis is informed by interviews with the most pertinent scientists, a detailed survey of the relevant social networks, and review of the main primary literature.
- Subjects
VIENNA (Austria); QUANTUM theory; QUANTUM mechanics; WORLD War II; HISTORY of physics
- Publication
Physics in Perspective, 2022, Vol 24, Issue 2/3, p125
- ISSN
1422-6944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00016-022-00290-y