Physics Colloquium: FAUST IN COPENHAGEN: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
Prof. Gino Segre, University of Pennsylvania
22 March 2015, 16:00
Shenkar Building, Melamed Hall 006
Abstract:
An informal weeklong meeting was held in April 1932 at Niels Bohr’s Copenhagen Institute. With Dirac, Heisenberg, Ehrenfest, Meitner and other prominent physicists in attendance, its aim was to determine the state of physics after the discovery of the neutron, a crucial turning point for physics. The meeting ended with the young physicists mounting a skit parodying Goethe’s Faust adapted to the world of physics.
