Much Polyphony but Little Harmony: Otto Sackur’s Groping for a Quantum Theory of Gases |
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Authors: | Massimiliano Badino Bretislav Friedrich |
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Institution: | 1. Centre d’Història de la Ciència, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, 08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain 2. Abteilung Molekülphysik, Fritz Haber Institute, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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Abstract: | The endeavor of Otto Sackur (1880–1914) was driven, on the one hand, by his interest in Nernst’s heat theorem, statistical mechanics, and the problem of chemical equilibrium and, on the other hand, by his goal to shed light on classical mechanics from the quantum vantage point. Inspired by the interplay between classical physics and quantum theory, Sackur chanced to expound his personal take on the role of the quantum in the changing landscape of physics in the turbulent 1910s. We tell the story of this enthusiastic practitioner of the old quantum theory and early contributor to quantum statistical mechanics, whose scientific ontogenesis provides a telling clue about the phylogeny of his contemporaries. |
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