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Léon Rosenfeld (14 August 1904 – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and close collaborator of Niels Bohr.
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“No physical concept is sufficiently defined without the knowledge of its domain of validity.”
“Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.”
“Wesentliche Fortschritte in der Formulierung der allgemeinen Quantengesetze der elektromagnetischen und materiellen Wellenfelder haben neuerdings Heisenberg und Pauli… erzielt, indem sie die von Dirac erfundene "Methode der nochmaligen Quanteln" systematisch entwickelten. Neben gewissen sachlichen Schwierigkeiten, die viel tiefer liegen, trat dabei eine eigentumliche Schwierigkeit formaler Natur auf: der zum skalaren Potential kanonisch konjugierte Impuls verschwindet identisch, so daß die Aufstellung der Hamiltonischen Funktion und der Vertauschungsrelationen nicht ohne weiteres gelingt. Zur Beseitigung dieser Schwierigkeit sind bisher drei Methoden vorgeschlagen worden, die zwar ihren Zweck erfullen, aber doch schwerlich als befriedigend betrachtet werden können.
(Heisenberg and Paull have recently made significant progress in the formulation of the general quantum laws of electromagnetic and material wave fields by systematically developing the "method of repeated quantization" invented by Dirac. In addition to certain factual difficulties which lie much deeper, a peculiar difficulty of a formal nature arose: the momentum which is canonically conjugated to the scalar potential vanishes identically, so that the establishment of the Hamiltonian function and the commutation relations is not easy. To overcome this difficulty, three methods have been proposed which, although they fulfil their purpose, can hardly be regarded as satisfactory.)”
(Heisenberg and Paull have recently made significant progress in the formulation of the general quantum laws of electromagnetic and material wave fields by systematically developing the "method of repeated quantization" invented by Dirac. In addition to certain factual difficulties which lie much deeper, a peculiar difficulty of a formal nature arose: the momentum which is canonically conjugated to the scalar potential vanishes identically, so that the establishment of the Hamiltonian function and the commutation relations is not easy. To overcome this difficulty, three methods have been proposed which, although they fulfil their purpose, can hardly be regarded as satisfactory.)”
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Léon Rosenfeld on Conversation
“Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.”
Léon Rosenfeld on Singularity
“Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.”
Léon Rosenfeld on Bohr–Einstein debates
“The refutation of Einstein’s criticism does not add any new element to the conception of complementarity, but it is of great importance in laying bare a very deep-lying opposition between Bohr’s general philosophical attitude and the still widespread habits of thought belonging to a glorious but irrevocably bygone age in the evolution of science.”
Léon Rosenfeld on EPR paradox
“This onslaught came down upon us as a bolt from the blue. Its effect on Bohr was remarkable... as soon as Bohr had heard my report of Einstein’s argument, everything else was abandoned: we have to clear up such a misunderstanding at once. We should reply by taking up the same example and showing the right way to speak about it. In great excitement, Bohr immediately started dictating to me the outline of such a reply. Very soon, however, he became hesitant. ‘No, this won’t do, we must try all over again... we must make it quite clear...’ So it went on for a while, with growing wonder at the unexpected subtlety of the argument.”
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Anja Saar Jacobsen on Léon Rosenfeld
“In the history of science literature Rosenfeld is largely a blank sheet, but he was at the centre of modern physics as one of the pioneers of quantum field theory and quantum electrodynamics in the late 1920s and the 1930s. Today he is best known for his publications with Niels Bohr in 1933 and 1950 on measurability in quantum electrodynamics and as the fierce spokesman of Bohr's complementarity interpretation of quantum mechanics after the Second World War.”
Wolfgang Pauli on Léon Rosenfeld
“Dear sqrt{text{Trotsky×Bohr}} = text{Rosenfeld}!”
About Léon Rosenfeld
Léon Rosenfeld (14 August 1904 – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian physicist and close collaborator of Niels Bohr.