5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
German-American physicist who published the special theory of relativity (1905), the general theory of relativity (1915), and the photoelectric effect (Nobel Prize 1921) — demonstrating that space, time, mass, and energy are related, and transforming the foundations of physics.
Dutch philosopher of physics who developed the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics and has worked on time, becoming, and the foundations of statistical mechanics.
Austrian physicist who developed wave mechanics (the Schrödinger equation) as an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics, and whose book What Is Life? predicted the existence of a genetic code before DNA was discovered.
Werner Heisenberg — German theoretical physicist who developed quantum mechanics and formulated the uncertainty principle (1927) — demonstrating that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be precisely measured simultaneously — one of the foundational discoveries of 20th century physics.
Austrian-Swiss theoretical physicist who received the 1945 Nobel Prize for the Pauli exclusion principle — and who, while in Jungian analysis with a student of Jung's, entered a 25-year intellectual correspondence with Jung about synchronicity, the relationship between quantum mechanics and psychology, and the unus mundus.