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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Boy
Antecedents
Early years
An empire’s last hurrah
Scientific stirrings
From schoolboy to undergraduate
Chapter Two: Physics before Schrödinger
Newton and the world of particles
Maxwell and the world of waves
Boltzmann and the world of statistics
Chapter Three: Twentieth-Century Man
Student life
Life beyond the lab
War service on the Italian Front
Back to Vienna
The aftermath
The peripatetic professor
Chapter Four: The First Quantum Revolution
When black bodies are bright
Enter the quantum
The quantum becomes real
Inside the atom
Tripping the light fantastic
Einstein again
Chapter Five: Solid Swiss Respectability
The university and the ETH
Personal problems and scientific progress
Physics and philosophy
Life and love
“My world view”
Quantum statistics
Chapter Six: Matrix Mechanics
Half-truths
What you see is what you get
Matrices don’t commute
Justice isn’t always done
Chapter Seven: Schrödinger and the Second Quantum Revolution
Science and sensuality
Riding the wave
A quantum of uncertainty
The Copenhagen consensus
Chapter Eight: The Big Time in Berlin
Making waves in America
Berlin and Brussels
The golden years
Back to the future
People and politics
Chapter Nine: The Coming of the Quantum Cat
Back in the USA
Oxford and beyond
Faster than light?
The cat in the box
From Oxford with love
Chapter Ten: There, and Back Again
Whistling in the dark
Reality bites
The unhappy return
Belgian interlude
Chapter Eleven: “The Happiest Years of My Life”
“Dev”
Settling in
Early days at the DIAS
“Family” life in Dublin
The post-war years
Many worlds
Chapter Twelve: What Is Life?
Life itself
Quantum chemistry
The green pamphlet
Schrödinger’s variation on the theme
The double helix
Chapter Thirteen: Back to Vienna
Farewell to Dublin
Home is the hero
Declining years
The triumph of entropy
Chapter Fourteen: Schrödinger’s Scientific Legacy
Hidden reality and a mathematician’s mistake
The Bell test and the Aspect experiment
Quantum cryptography and the “no cloning” theorem
Quantum teleportation and classical information
The quantum computer and the Multiverse
Quantum physics and reality
Postscript
Sources and Further Reading
Index
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